Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon three weeks ago, James Smith Ferebee breezed into the club's locker room, announced that he had just played 90 holes. "Could have gone 144," he added. This irked fat Fred Tuerk, who offered to bet him $2 that he couldn...
...noon he had collected a gallery of 500 and scores of 90, 82, 82, 82. Then Providence sent a rainstorm. Fortified by sandwiches & coffee and refreshed by a shower during his 97-minute rest, Golfer Ferebee continued his jaunt, followed by a dozen reporters, photographers and, toward late afternoon, half of La Salle Street (including Partner Tuerk...
Next day, as all La Salle Street speculated whether he would ever get Tuerk's share of the 290-acre farm (the title is in Mrs. Tuerk's name), Golfer Ferebee was back at the Olympia Fields course, playing his regular Saturday afternoon foursome...
...Designer Gabrielle Chanel stole a march on her fellow big shots by opening a full weekend ahead of them, capitalizing on her noted simplicity. Near the centre line of fashion were oldtimer Chanel's wool frocks with ruffles at wrist and neck, forward or "profiled" berets, dark velvet afternoon and dinner dresses, strapless evening gowns...
...trailing a banner reading DRINK KIRCH'S QUALITY BEVERAGES. Suddenly, a handful of oil dashed against his windshield, and his engine coughed as though it had swallowed a bone. He looked down for a place to land. But Pilot Purchase was over Coney Island on a Sunday afternoon, and all he could see was 800,000 people in bathing suits. A hundred feet behind the beach was the only open space, Dreamland Park: a few tennis courts and flower beds. He dropped quickly, barely missing one hump of a roller coaster, bumped his Waco down in Dreamland, made...