Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich colony at Newport suffered worse than their friends at Southampton. Bailey's Beach. Ocean Drive and the Clambake Club were demolished. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's sculpture studio was torn off its cliff. Mrs. Jock Whitney's aunt, Mrs. John C. Norris and her son John C. Jr., were drowned in their car as they tried to motor from Narragansett Pier. In a house at Misquamicut, ten women holding a church social were drowned...
...that were Southampton's pride, looked like the Argonne of 1918. East Hampton, still further east, and Amagansett, were in worse case. More than four in every ten of their stately elms crashed. The sea rushed up and over the dunes to lash even at the Maidstone Country Club on its high bluff, obliterating the golf course and 50 prize flower gardens. Rich summer colonists and poor fisher folk suffered alike. Falling trees crushed the Maidstone Hotel. The Bridgehampton freight station was shunted smack across the tracks...
Seven years ago when Dr. Robert B. Lawson, physical director of the University of North Carolina, was asked to stir up a little golf interest among his pupils to stave off mortgage foreclosure on a local country club, he admitted frankly that he "didn't know which end of a stymie to take hold of." His 23-year-old daughter, Estelle (Phi Beta Kappa), knew less. Together they read a book on golf, bought four clubs apiece (brassie, No. 2 iron, mashie and putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they...
Last week Dr. Lawson's daughter (now married to an accountant named Julius Page) and Broker Berg's daughter (now freshman at the University of Minnesota) were co-favorites to win the U. S. women's golf championship, played at the Westmoreland Country Club, outside Chicago. Each had reached the top of the golf ladder with extraordinary leaps...
Husky Nancye Wynne went to bed for 24 hours, then lumbered out to limber her muscles on Manhattan's River Club court. Her compatriot, 19-year-old John Bromwich, Australia's either-handed, both-handed tennis topnotcher, wandered around Broadway until sheer ennui forced him to do a little volleying on an indoor court. Blond Sidney Wood, Wimbledon winner in 1931 who has been trying for a comeback this summer after two years of minding his nuggets in a California gold mine, visited his relatives in Manhattan. California's Alice Marble, U. S. women's champion...