Word: sportsmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble in finding such powerful patrons as Mayor James John Walker, Financier Francis Patrick Garvan, Lawyers Dudley Field Malone and Frank P. Walsh, Critic Ernest Boyd, Sportsman Aiden Roark (of the British International Polo team), Actor Dudley Digges, the widow of Author Donn Byrne (now Mrs. M. M. Willoughby Craig) and Socialites like Mrs. Walter A. Burke, Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. By the time the Museum opened last week, several non-Hibernian names often connected with Culture...
...gave the new track a non-conflicting schedule of 37 days, starting on Dec. 26 before the Hialeah season and resuming after it from Feb. 22 to March 19. Indignant because the new track had been assigned the late February days which are the peak of the Miami season, Sportsman Widener promptly stated that no horses quartered at Hialeah would be permitted to race at Tropical Park; that no owner or trainer who raced any of his horses at Tropical Park would be allowed to race at Hialeah...
Among the changes which life has brought to Alfonso XIII. whilom King of Spain, is that he who always used to appear in the press as the Merry Monarch, the Gentleman-Sportsman, the Genial Host, has lately been thrust into the less popular role of Stern Father. Only last month he abruptly broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz on learning for sure that she and her sister Maria Christina were "carriers" of haemophilia, the family scourge. Last week he smashed the romance of his big-boned 23-year-old second son, the Infante Jaime. Prince Jaime is no haemophile...
While the Fawcetts frankly admit that Whiz Bang was the foundation of their prosperous publishing business, they deplore the fact that they seldom are publicly identified with the respectable magazines of their group, such as The Amateur Golfer & Sportsman, Screen Play, Modern Mechanics & Inventions. Few months ago they acquired Screen Book, disposed of by the Mackinnon-Fly Publications. They cut its price from 25? to 10?, boosted its circulation from 100,000 to 300,000. Next year they will offer Mechanical Package Magazine, each copy of which will be delivered in a box containing also the parts of some mechanical...
Younger Britons know the son-blessed young Maharaja as a keen sportsman. Elder Britons recall how his foster father the late Maharaja of Jaipur came to King-Emperor Edward VII's coronation in London "without leaving Jaipur soil." This he smartly did by taking with him a large boxful of the said soil, upon which he squatted in London when he ate his meals, quaffed Jaipur water...