Word: autographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Amateur championship last week. But there was a curiously neat compensation. Ready on the first tee of the Westward Ho! course at starting time was another U. S. celebrity even more famed & popular than Golfer Jones. A brownish, stocky little man, he attracted an unprecedented swarm of autograph hunters. A dozen ladies were so anxious to have their children see him play that they pushed perambulators after him over five miles of gently undulating Devonshire. British golf critics agreed that his swing was good and his manners, though slightly formal, better than those of most U. S. players. Perhaps...
With the tourists jostling each other for his autograph, St. Gandhi refused them all with a toothy grin and a joke...
Several hundred U. S. tourists from the world-cruising S. S. Belgenland hurrahed St. Gandhi in New Delhi last week, snapped their cameras at him, clamored for his autograph...
...most valuable books in the collection is an autograph album which was owned by Camillo Cerdogm, a Neapolitan Nobleman who succeeded in getting Milton's signature...
Cinemimic Charles Spencer Chaplin was in Berlin last week, but Britain still echoed with the sound of his passing. British newspapers brimmed with photographs: Chaplin walking with the Prime Minister, Chaplin sitting on the edge of Lady Astor's theatre box, Chaplin mobbed at a railway station, obliging autograph hunters, quipping with George Bernard Shaw...