Word: sportswomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polo; of complications resulting from a fall from a horse three months ago; in Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Hitchcock taught polo to her famed son "Tommy," trained among other players Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Douglas Burden. An indomitable rider, she was acknowledged one of the most gallant sportswomen...
...appeal to a million sportsmen and sportswomen to send ten shillings [about $2.25] each to dispose of absolutely at my own personal discretion." Such last week was the amazing proposition of the Duke of Atholl, a proposition which he promised to keep open until Sept. 30. For months His Grace has been trying to start a British Sweepstake for charity which would evade the United Kingdom's strict law against lotteries. Originally ten-shilling tickets were to have been sold to anyone who cared to take a purely nominal "test of skill" by arranging "in order of artistic merit...
...athletic attitude and all some 25 ft. tall. Pope Pius XI was said by Fascist officials to have suggested the fig leaves, since the 70 virile statues adorn the upper rim of a new Roman Stadium which will be used not only by Italian sportsmen but also by Italian sportswomen. To open the stadium on Italy's Armistice Day last week, Il Duce approached with quick strides a monstrous object 55 ft. tall, swathed in bunting and sprouting upward from a base of equal height. Pulling the ripcord, Italy's Dictator revealed a 300-ton obelisk of Carrara...
Until four years ago women did not, officially, play squash racquets. A few inveterate sportswomen like Eleonora Sears of Boston pioneered whenever they could get on a men's court. Clubs around Boston, where Miss Sears is an influence, began to let women use their courts. In Manhattan women play on the Junior League and Colony Club courts; out-of-town courts are available for them at Ardsley Swimming & Racquet Club (Ardsley-on-Hudson) and at Nassau Country Club and Rockaway Hunting Club on Long Island; in Chicago they play tournament matches at the Racquet Club and in Detroit...