Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Match play began. Von Elm, weak against tall Ellsworth Augustus of Cleveland, barely managed to take the match on the 19th hole. Richard Jones, Massachusetts state champion, pressed Robert Tyre Jones hard before succumbing by one hole. M. B. Stevenson played a family match against long-driving young Roland MacKenzie. Long an intimate of the lad's parents, Mr. Stevenson sent Mrs. MacKenzie Sr. a telegram expressing profound sorrow at having been forced to eliminate her son. Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet...
...letters; in the other lived John Hay, statesman. Mr. Hay became Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, then Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. Imperceptibly, inevitably, the salon appeared. Henry Adams and John LaFarge would come in, chattering feverishly about the sculpture of Augustus St. Gaudens; Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge would play "a game in which they were always liable to find the shifty sands of American opinion yield suddenly under their feet." Political powers angled with suave Continental diplomats, with Bostonian literateurs...
...Dental Prosthetists was in annual session. Its members are dentists who specialize in making plates, bridges and like artificial dentures. Orthodontists. Six hundred, including nearly all the 450 in the U.S., convened from 15 nations. They heard-that orthodontia lies at the basis of the science of dentistry (Dr. Augustus S. Downing of Albany, N. Y.); that universities are now recognizing orthodontia as a dignified science and that the average dentist earns more than the average doctor (Dr. Leuman M. Waugh of Manhattan); that adenoids, mouth breathing and thumb-sucking mess up the arrangement of teeth (Dr. Percy R. Howe...
...stressed felicitously the concord of Science and Government. † Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. *This speech marked a turning point in the victorious struggle of Disraeli against Gladstone for the export of Church-of- Englanders...
Died. Colonel Washington Augustus Roebling, 89, Civil War hero, who monumentalized the profession of his father by building the Brooklyn Bridge; at his home in Trenton...