Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even with the will I couldn't help comfortably while paying for a winter home in Florida out of income. And by a home in Florida I don't mean a duchy or principality with a kingly villa in the centre, like the Great Khan Teagle's estate, but a few humble acres on the Gulf and a simple cottage with bougainvillea and cocoanut palms and poison ivy around...
Howard Parker, the business manager of the H. A. A., will give up his office on December 1, next winter, after the transition from the present system to the new has been completed...
...tomorrow's meeting. This year's 1931 combination is probably the best polo team to represent the Harvard Freshmen since the establishment of polo as a sport at the University. The Freshmen have twice this Spring defeated the first University group and have maintained a splendid record throughout their winter and spring schedules...
Epsom Downs is a heath where gypsies camp, the wind blows, and Londoners sometimes come for picnics. In the winter it is deserted and sinister-looking but on one day a year nearly a million people drive from all over England to see the race. Motor buses park along the last mile of the course and the spectators sit on top of them drinking champagne. This year as usual they bought luck-charms from gypsy peddlers, cheered the Prince of Wales, waved their hats at the King, and shouted as the horses went round to the start. Lord Derby...
...Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...