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Polo. Alfonso XIII, 40, probably the only living sovereign young enough to ride a pirouetting polo pony, played back, one afternoon, for the polo team of the 65th Lancers against the 7th Hussars. With a potent swipe of the royal mallet he split a polo ball both halves of which rolled over the goal line. By that goal the Lancers...
...Ireland's curly-headed rebel poet before he hushed his tongue and earned the name of Jimmy the Hangman for sitting, iron-jowled, on a high bench of justice as Lord Glenmalure; of how this man married his sweet daughter Connaught to John d'Arcy, a tricky swipe but polished, instead of to fine young Dermot McDermot of Dermotstown, as brave a lad of the old land as was in it, so that she might be a great lady and go about the world instead of stopping always in the quiet country among horses, dogs and simple folk...
...young woman had a bundle of notes in her hand. A swipe of a nightstick loosened her hold. The papers fluttered into...
...swap of the sweeping swipe...
...good swipe at a christening...