Word: barnstorm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England and the U. S. On his return, Champion Vines lost his form, lost his All-England title to Australia's Jack Crawford, lost his U. S. title to England's Fred Perry, finally turned professional. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association prudently stopped sending representatives to barnstorm-below the equator...
...round in 67 to tie Walter Hagen's record for the Open. On the following round he shot a 65, seven under par, the maddest pace ever set in national championship golf. He refused to play on the Ryder Cup team in 1931 because rules forbade him to barnstorm the U. S. independently after the matches. In 1933 he was ineligible because he was a nonresident, employed at the Waterloo Club at Brussels. Last winter when he returned to England to become professional at the Ashridge Club near Berkhamsted, he became eligible for this year's Ryder...
...usual at Cannes, Biarritz, Deauville and Dinard this year the same cars and the same women will barnstorm through weeks of automotive elegance. At each resort there is something called a "First Prize" which is given to a more or less standard U. S. car in the low or medium price class, after the real first and second prizes (the prix d'élégance and the prix d'honneur) have been won by cars in the $20,000 class...
...equally, that it memorialized the Northerners for reunion. This, a matter for committee consideration, is not likely to result in any organic union, is at least certain to be a lengthy business. But it resulted in the two leading Northern and Southern brothers going off, arm-in-arm, to barnstorm for friendliness...
Miss Gulliver Travels gives a number of actors the opportunity of dressing up in oldtimey costumes and smacking their lips over some colored water which is supposed to be bourbon and ale. It relates the adventures of a troupe of mummers who barnstorm the U. S. circa 1811. Big scene occurs when they give Romeo and Juliet in Washington, D. C. before President James Madison. Here the reunited lovers score a triumph not repeated by Miss Gulliver Travels...