Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thayer 9, Douglas P. Adams...
...mist drove away the fear that the Vagabond had felt at the sound of trucks. It was Cambridge and not Bediam after all even if it was the drizzle that proved the point. The noise of trunks bumping on the steps of Thayer and Matthews, of Gallatin and Walter Hastings would have jarred on the Vagabond's nerves on a bright sunny day when sounds seemed to reverberate from their origin. But the rain was a dull absorbent muffler. It was like--thought the Vagabond--it was like a ball of wool falling on a Persian...
...forth one afternoon last week on a pleasant green meadow across the river from Moscow. They dangled polo mallets from their wrists. With them rode a Philadelphia socialite who had won his one-goal rating with the Bryn Mawr Polo Club and the West Point polo team, Charles W. Thayer, personal secretary to U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt...
...soon as War Commissar "Klim" saw the over-sized cavalry geldings lumbering into one another and his men swinging wildly at the white willow-root ball, he began to cheer. His own Captain Horovenko, playing No. 1 for the "Red" team after six weeks of teaching, was crowding Mr. Thayer, No. 1 for the "White" team, for individual honors. The West Pointer could hit but Captain Horovenko could ride. The All-Russian "Red" team beat its coach, 5 to 4. Commissar "Klim" congratulated his men hoarsely: "The horses were less efficient than the riders. It was a hard-fought, clean...
William Roscoe Thayer '31, Francis William Taussig, '79, William Guild Howard '91, and Richard Henry Dana '74 are the new officers of the P. B. C. society...