Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorites wildly improbable. On the very first hole, Al Watrous, home pro at Oakland Hills, took two strokes to get out of a trap which, in innumerable unimportant rounds, he had invariably avoided. Bert McDowell, an able amateur from Baton Rouge, knocked three balls into the lake on the 16th hole, took three putts for an n, posted a 91, high score for the first day. Young Frank Strafaci of Brooklyn, 1935 Public Links champion, hit the flag on the third and missed a hole-in-one by a hair...
...thousand sweltering women from 36 countries gathered in Constitution Hall in Washington last week to participate in the 16th triennial world meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. World President Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, as a prelude to her reelection, told the meeting that drinking by women is one of the great "causes of maternal death," praised Germany's Hitler because he gave the beverage concession at last summer's Olympic Village to the Deutscher Frauenbund der Abstinenz (Nazi W. C. T. U.). is a total abstainer, supports restaurants which serve no beer...
...group from Albuquerque, N. M. sang & danced most precisely, acted out a 16th-century Nativity play called Los Pastores (The Shepherds...
...largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale's oddest item, a rare Georgian walnut & leather "drunkard's chair" with slots at the sides for poles by which chair & occupant could be carried. Total sales...
...16th century tapestries, made in Brussels about 1530 by Van Orley, and from that time until the World War the property of the Royal House of Saxony, are outstanding among the exhibits. The hangings depict "The Last Supper," and "The Ascension of Christ...