Word: returning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago the U. S. Polo Association: called upon Hawaii for ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping Mr. Dillingham pick out some fine Virginia mares and serving them free at the Whitney stud, to give the Islands a good new strain...
...Since April, the Pilgrims have given banquets for Retiring-Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, World Court Judge Charles Evans Hughes. Only the decision of venerable Klihu Root not to go to England after all on his return from Geneva (TIME, April 1) prevented their dining...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was speechmaking in Ohio last week, when he heard that in Washington his son and namesake, who established an alcoholic reputation upon his recent return from Panama (TIME, April 22), had driven an automobile into a truck, been arrested for driving while under the influence of narcotics, and was at large under bond. Said Senator Heflin: "I am deeply pained . . . to learn that my son has been drinking again. . . . My enemies who are willing to exploit my son in the newspapers . . . will...
Nicholas Roerich, demigod to many an esthete in the U. S., South America, Russia and the European capitals and to many a monk and nomad of Central Asia, returned to Manhattan last week. With him was his son George, Harvard orientalist. More than four years they have spent ranging through the mountains and plateau deserts of Tibet, studying peoples, religions, archaeology, terrain. Explorer Roerich had painted mystically-panoramas, portraits, and haze-curtained lines of his own imagining. At Darjeeling, India, where his party recuperated from mountain rigors (for five months once they were beleaguered at 40° below zero), dark...
...tennis girl from California. Although she is perhaps the world's best amateur woman player and although he is a septuagenarian, the Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another distinguished oldster, began making the 15-minute trip out to the new stadium to watch the players practice and then begin to play for the highest titles the tennis world holds...