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...little yellow Nellie with the diamonds on her bosom...
Evans may well have marked this Carter wistfully, a lad whose 19 sum- mers nearly matched Evans' age (18) when he won his first Western Amateur title in 1909. And Mrs. Carter, trudging faithfully in the galleries, may well have felt her maternal bosom rapturously expand. Her slight son, unruffled by high winds, undismayed by sodden turf, continued ticking off pars, eliminated Rolfe, then Fred Lamprecht (intercollegiate champion). In the final, the Cummings-conqucring Martin had Carter in hand for 18 holes, no more. Three down as he munched his lunch, Carter recovered with a rush, won the title...
...violently did the vulgar clasp him to its unclean bosom that the cultured upper classes reacted to any mention of his name as they would to a bathroom joke?they saw the point, but would not be caught laughing at it. This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some...
...shall define a triumph? The first night of Italian opera in London, Mme. Toti dal Monte swelled her ample bosom to emit the titular notes of Lucia di Lammermoor. Diffident boxes whacked their hands red. "A triumph," said the press next morning, meaning that Toti dal Monte had covered the work with her usual capability...
...cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time, the monsters exchanged signs and left the bottom, risingly slowly and erect like dead fish on hooks. At the surface, they clambered to the bosom of their parent-the S.S. Arcturus-shed the globes from their heads, burst out talking-Explorer William Beebe to his associate Prof. W. K. Gregory-about the submarine scene they had been observing. Also last week, inhabitants of the human world attending" a tea-party at the New York Zoological Park...