Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pressagent Cerwin's employer, President Samuel F. B. Morse of Del Monte Properties Co., believes the statement that Golfer Montague, with a simple putt left at the 17th and a par on the 18th for a record 66 on Pebble Beach, picked up his ball and walked off. The 18th hole at Pebble Beach is 550 yd. Golfer Montague is reliably recorded as having been on this green in two shots...
During his coming two-week visit to Hollywood Jean Harlow announced she would be hostess to chief G-Man J, Edgar Hoover, who met her at the President's Birthday Ball in Washington, staged a machine-gun demonstration for her amusement...
...tormentor out of the way, Sisi never even attempted to take her place as the real Empress of Austria. By this time she was as unpopular with the Austrians as she was beloved in Hungary. At 36 Sisi was a grandmother. She celebrated by sneaking out to a masked ball, picking up a young man and beginning a clandestine but innocent correspondence. She developed new hobbies: a morbidly "humanitarian" interest in insanity; a kind of throne-room liberalism in which she prattled social equality, without realizing what a limb she was out on. She built a Greek palace in Corfu...
Doubtless the ball team has had a real grievance in the partisan selection of umpires. But for the season now opening umpires are to be chosen by the A.A. from a list of officials approved by the New England Conference of Colleges, just as in hockey, basketball, and other minor sports. Hence-forth, then, the cry of unfairness and preconceived bias cannot be levelled at the umpires with any shred of justice or right...
...President Roosevelt's mother, at a Birthday Ball...