Word: balling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy hooked his drive toward the rough, but the ball hit a spectator and caromed back onto the fairway. His next, a strong approach shot headed for the back-of-beyond, hit a second spectator and dropped on the edge of the green. Demaret took a par for the hole and gained another stroke on Hogan. Jimmy sealed the victory on the 18th with a 30-ft. putt for a birdie, a 67 and first-prize money of $2,000. Hogan missed an easy putt for a 70. Grinned Jimmy, who would be riding the rest of the winter circuit...
...some of the actors play pin-ball, and some of them write these, and some of them ski--you get the idea. As for the play itself, well, it varies a little from year to year, but the third set is always played in searsucker jackets and the epilogue in caps and gowns. Just what sort of comedy the play is--whether it is farce, or burlesque, or tragi-comedy--has never been settled. But that is a matter for pedants to discuss. Today, as the great bard has said, we have another op'nin' of another show...
That night they went to the Inaugural Ball; but most left long before the ball was over...
Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg rose in the Senate last week to plead for the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State. What made it news was not his support of Acheson, for the Republican champion of the bipartisan foreign policy had often carried the ball for the Democrats, but the qualification he attached to his support. Said Vandenberg...
That night TV went to the Inaugural Ball, reported drama in the hush before the President's entrance, when a sea of faces turned toward the presidential box and the only sound was the faint worrying of a guitar's strings as the Marine Band waited to strike up Hail to the Chief...