Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabot 1G will coach the various fifteens this spring in the place of T. P. Fry, who initiated and supervised the English sport last year, and who has now returned to Australia. Mr. Cabot has played several years on the New Zealand champions, the "All-Blacks," and starred for them on their successful invasion of South Africa last year. He will devote most of his time at the beginning of the season to the organization of the House teams. Last year over 100 men attended rugby practice...
Berthed for $5,000 aboard the S. S. Monwai from New Zealand, Phar Lap (Senegalese for "Wink of the Sky"), the "red terror" of the Australian turf, arrived last week in San Francisco. A long-limbed chestnut gelding, Phar Lap (son of Night Raid, English horse, and out of Entreaty, New Zealand mare) has won 32 out of 42 races and $267,675 prize money in Australia. He was taken to Heather Stock Farm near San Francisco for conditioning before being sent to Agua Caliente to race in the $50,000 handicap there in March...
Three Men and a Woman. Demonstrating that sex can raise its ugly head "down under" as well as any other place on the Globe, Three Men and a Woman is concerned with the doings in a lighthouse on Cape Forlorn, New Zealand. Why the God-fearing keeper (William Desmond) married his lecherous wife (Franc Hale) is something Australian Playwright Frank Harvey does not explain. When her husband goes to the mainland, she betrays him with his assistant (old Melodramatist Walker Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings...
...spur of the moment which would be heard by thousands of listeners. ... I was received at the White House by President Hoover. The British Ambassador was with me and he and the President were very outspoken." The new Pascall itinerary includes South Africa, India, the Straits Settlements, Australia, New Zealand, ending in June at the great annual Rotary International Convention in Seattle...
...total expenditure of about $7,500,000 he proposed to build three bridges, most important one to span the straits between Zealand and Falster. About two miles long, it would be the longest bridge in Europe.† The State would be reimbursed by an extra gasoline tax of one ore a liter (roughly, 1/5? a quart...