Search Details

Word: balle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Mexico. Republicans renominated Governor Richard C. ("Honest Dick") Dillon, famed in his last campaign for his 22-word campaign speeches, and objections to wearing a dress suit at his inaugural ball. Governor Dillon said he might cut his campaign speeches this year to eleven words. His opponent: Democrat Bob Dow. cowboy Attorney-General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: As Goes . . . So Goes . . . . | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...semi-finals Jones finished his morning round 9 up; after lunch, while Voigt and Perkins started out, he stood on the practice tee driving ball after ball through exactly the same trajectory far down the fairway to where two caddies waited to pick them up. After every perfect drive, Jones' face grew darker. Then he went out on the course and played six more holes with Phil Finlay, a shaky, hard-hitting Harvard boy; by this time he had won his match, 13 up and 12 to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Amateur Clubmen | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Perkins were fighting it out a little harder. The gallery was rooting for the quiet lanky Lancashireman, who never spoke except to his caddie whom he called "laddie." They saw Voigt go one down in the morning round; in the afternoon, Voigt lost the sixth hole when his ball landed in a brook at the foot of the green. He kept on losing holes after that and the match was over on the 14th after they both played in from the rough around the green to halve the hole. Perkins, for the first time since he had started his afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Amateur Clubmen | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...last fall, considered to be the leading candidate for the post on the first eleven this season, is still out with a leg injury but is expected back about October 1. B. H. Dorman '29, A. B. Bigelow '30 and B. H. Ticknor '31 have snapped the ball back on the three sections of the University squad this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'CONNELL WORKS WITH PIVOT MEN | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

...repeated her triumphs. Her mansion on Carlton House Terrace was decorated with Gobelin tapestries, other valuable objets d'art. Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was a constant, admiring visitor. She went to Moscow, where Tsar Alexander III pronounced her the most beautifully dressed woman at his coronation ball. In 1902 her husband died. In 1915 she began a quiet life at Nice, France. She returned to the U. S. in 1919, where she has since entertained the present Prince of Wales and Colonel Lindbergh on Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Previous | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | Next