Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mahority of U.S. golf fans, Oliver was a nobody. Son of a Delaware coal miner, he had quietly come up from the caddy ranks to a job as golf pro at an obscure country club in Hornell, N.Y. Last winter, in his second trek over the Grapefruit Circuit, he won two tournaments: the Bing Crosby Open and the Phoenix Open. Except to his colleagues who toured the southern resorts and to spectators who happened to see his par-busting play, Ed Oliver was just another pro-until he was DISQUALIFIED...
...their casts such stars as Katharine Cornell and Helen Hayes, who could attract an audience in the Mojave Desert. When Hollywood stars return to the boards for a lark, they do so not in Hollywood but on Broadway and in the better-class barns of the straw-hat circuit...
...come from the "right kind" of family, you'll be asked to kick in with some dough for the various sub-deb subscription dances, the minor leagues of the deb party circuit. They're on the dull side, and early, and feature no drinking. House dances are O.K. if you go with some friends, but not many Freshmen do. Girls' college dances are aabout the best fun; the Statler and Copley are the conservatively correct places to go dancing after football games, but they're pretty stuffy...
...with the demand. She began to trace her designs on cloth, carry the marked cloth and a hank of yarn around to neighboring farm wives who would do the "tufting" for so much per spread. Every few days she would set out in a mule cart to run the circuit of her tufters...
...were distinguished attorneys in Manhattan, they became firm friends. Soon after Henry Stimson became Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, able Republican Robert Patterson was appointed to the U. S. District bench in New York. Franklin Roosevelt last year upped him to the Second (New York, Connecticut, Vermont) Circuit Court of Appeals to succeed Judge Robert Manton, convicted of conspiring to sell decisions of his court...