Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Habit. Most Britons, however, were ready to concede victory to any member of the U. S. team because of the team's disturbing habit of taking home the British Amateur trophy almost every time it has come to Great Britain. Jess Sweetser did it in 1926, Bobby Jones in 1930, Lawson Little in 1934. With this unpleasant precedent in mind, a British sportswriter said he hoped the sight of the black & white shoes and the southern drawls of the U. S. players would not send the British scores zooming into the 80s as they had done three times before...
...that some modification . . . would be desirable." Said Sculptor Milles: "A fountain should be a gay and happy thing. . . . They ask me why there are sharks in the fountain, when there are no sharks in the Mississippi and I reply that this is an important wedding and the guests have come from...
...Oxford, England, nervous, bull-necked Viscount Nuffield, 60, Great Britain's No. 1 motor tycoon and Oxford University's No. 1 donor, was working overtime, when police arrested a man who they charged had come to his office to kidnap him. When Nuffield heard what happened, he ran to tell someone the news, burst in on some employes practicing for a band concert, cried: "Well, boys, what do you think of it? Two men have just tried to kidnap...
...grand jury was expected to take at least six weeks to come to a decision, but last week, after hearing 150 witnesses in five days, it returned three sweeping indictments. First was against General Motors, G. M. A. C., General Motors Sales Corp., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., William S. Knudsen, and 17 other General Motors and G. M. A. C. executives. Second was against Chrysler Corp., Chrysler Sales Corp., Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Commercial Credit Co., and 18 executives, including Walter P. Chrysler. Third was against Edsel Ford, Ford Motor Co., Universal Credit Corp. and twelve more executives. Maximum penalty...
...month, under Anglo-Catholic leadership, about one-fifth of the Episcopal ministry-1,400 priests-signed a statement disapproving open Communion. Last week, the church's Liberal Evangelicals, a group of 450 ministers who represent a much larger number, plumped solidly for giving Communion to baptized Christians "who come as guests to what is not 'Our Table' but the Table of the Lord...