Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adhemar used to be a doctor. The son of a moderately well-to-do coffee planter, he romped with gold-medal honors-through the University of Brazil, where he studied medicine and played water polo. After two years at the Bayer Laboratory in Berlin, Germany, and at Johns Hopkins Medical School, he hung out his shingle in São Paulo. But the practice of medicine was slow and dull. He turned to politics and became a strong-voiced deputy in the state legislature...
...polo-playing set around Fairfield, Conn., Margaret Rudkin was merely the pretty, red-haired wife of a polo-playing stockbroker-until her son got sick. She thought that bread might be a good thing to build up his strength. Not store bread, but old-fashioned homemade bread. Mrs. Rudkin got out a bread recipe left by her grandmother. It called for flour to be milled by stone in the old-style way, quantities of whole milk and butter. So Mrs. Rudkin rolled up her sleeves, ground some wheat into flour in a coffee mill and baked bread in her kitchen...
...kind of riding breeches; after an appendectomy; in Mount Abu, Rajputana. Westernized at India's Mayo College (for princely sprouts), the Maharaja learned to fly, imported tile bathrooms, favored his subjects with land, judiciary and educational reforms; but he visited England as an Oriental despot with 70 polo ponies, four wives, 100 servants...
Before reporting for duty as an infantry second lieutenant Davis was off to Hollywood to make a movie with Blanchard for $50,000 each. They would play their last game together at Manhattan's Polo Grounds in September, with the College All-Stars against New York's professional Giants. West Point-and the U.S. at large-would not soon forget Army's invincible eleven, unbeaten in three years, and Blanchard and Davis, who made...
Sideline Seat. Nowadays, Columnist Rose is waist-deep in the fanciest possible metaphors. At its best, his talk combines the shriller styles of E. E. Cummings, a nightspot headwaiter, P. T. Barnum and a Polo Grounds peanut vendor. But he flavors this potpourri with a cynical wit. "What people don't seem to see," he complains, "is the Billy who sits on the sidelines and laughs at the game...