Word: duffer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most skilled women golfers have found that skirts do not interfere with their game. But many a female duffer has taken to knickerbockers ("knickers") in hopes that they will improve her game, give her freedom of swing, etc. Men have snickered at women in knickerbockers, have said that they looked ridiculous waddling around the links...
...total of 12,000 skips. Skipper Lavere was puffing and heaving when he stopped. Later he explained his agility: "I eat raw meat, everything raw. Eating raw stuff was the only thing that enabled me to do this. . . . From now on, there is an open challenge to any old duffer who thinks he can beat...
...first ten chapters, replete with graceful, pipe-in-mouth poses by the author, meticulously initiate the duffer into the serious mysteries of golf. Like any instruction book, this part is all very involved and reiterative, so eager is the teacher to tell all he knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British...
...ousting of duffer professionals...