Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most U. S. sport fans, the name of Hitchcock means America's greatest polo player. To horsemen, Hitchcock also means America's greatest steeplechase trainer. Oldtimers remember well when Thomas Hitchcock Sr., father of Tommy the Poloist, was a hell-for-leather rider himself. A Long Island swell, he learned polo at Oxford, was one of the first ten-goalers in the U. S., captained the first international polo team that challenged England for the Westchester...
Gene Clark, George Downing, Torby Macdonald, Dave Simboll, and Charlie Smith are among those who will not compete. Bill Shallow and Jim Light-body, however, will face the Hanoverians and should grab off a trio of firsts to swell the Crimson total...
...Hugo Musical Society (he invented the name, which he thought imposing), and arranged concerts for labor organizations. His first real artist was Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose fee he beat down to $500. S. Hurok hired the New York Hippodrome for popular-priced concerts, a new thing then. To swell the advance sales on Belgian Violinist Eugene Ysaÿe, Hurok advertised in the Sunday Telegram: - Actress Marta Eggert...
...that has survived a conflagration. But to those who know their abstract iron onions, these arthropodal trivets are as good as they come. For his material, he sometimes ransacks junk yards, picks over leftovers from the neighboring iron works. Of his neighbors the boilermakers, he says: "They are pretty swell to me, even though they don't know what it's all about...
Sirs: As one who wrote you protesting your Jan.15 article on Premier Eamon de Valera of Eire I would like to square matters by telling you that this week's piece is very swell and in the best TIME edition. CYRUS RICE Milwaukee...