Word: polos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon to celebrate his 25th year as ruler of the largest state in Malaya, is a man as huge (6 ft. i in., 200-plus Ibs.) as his name, and as perenially active as the tongue that tries to pronounce it. An inveterate and skillful marksman, golfer, tennis and polo player, he is easily the most tireless partygoer in all Pahang; in 1956, accompanied by a troupe of shapely dancing girls, he literally danced the Communist menace out of his corner of the Malayan jungle by throwing one rousing village party after another for villagers throughout his sultanate. He also...
Kubla Khan ruled his far-flung empire from Korea to Hungary, using a pony express of 200,000 horses to maintain rapid communication, from his palace in Peking (which Marco Polo described with its "walls covered with gold and silver") or his pleasure-domed summer palace, with its 16-square-mile enclosed park at Shangtu (the Xanadu of Coleridge's famed verses). But because the Mongol Khans decreed that the elite Confucian scholars -who, under the Sung Dynasty, had ranked just below royalty-should be reduced to a category one degree above beggars, few Chinese scholars showed...
Although the offer from four Eliot House seniors to revive the polo team "In the spirit of Teddy" is noble in intent, we must question the value of cavalry in guerrilla warfare. The offer from the fencing team must be considered in the same light. On the other hand, the offer of the Ornithological Club to train carrier pigeons is very considerate...
...with Conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez unsuccessful expedition to Florida. The current and 17th Marquis de Portago does his dangerous living in the world of sports. At 28. lean and swarthy Alfonso de Portago has been a champion jai-alai player, a fine swimmer, a superb polo player, a leading gentleman jockey, an Olympic bobsled star, and is one of the best sports-car racers in the world. When he rolls his sleek, shovel-nosed 3.5-liter Ferrari up to the starting line for the Florida International twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring this week...
...doubtful if a more pleasant site could have been found for such a tournament. The Broadmoor is not really a resort; it is a pleasure city, and one that is completely self-sufficient. Not very many resorts can offer their guests a hockey rink, a zoo, a polo field, a 27 hole golf course, a bar ensconced in a greenhouse, along with all the other obvious facilities. And above all this towers Pike's Peak, and the Rockies with their magnificent scenery...