Word: duffered
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...golfing duffer thinks of hazards in terms of hooks, slices, traps, bunkers, putts that won't drop. These things are nothing much in the life of P. G. A. Champion Byron Nelson. He is used to them, takes them as they come. What gets him down is good weather. Says he: "Give me an overcast day, and I'll give you a low golf score. Comes sunshine and the score goes up. Why? Because your eyes get tired and you lose your ability to judge distance...
Gaunt-faced, peppery Clarence Budington Kelland is a leading professional in the slick-paper magazine school of fiction. Twice as ingenious as most of his rivals, he has two standard plots: 1) streamlined, wisecracking romances, in which a duffer outwises the wise guys, 2) yarns-mostly historical-in which all stops are pulled out to paean the American Way. Arizona, a Civil War yarn published last week, uses Plot...
...highly entertaining. Director McClintic's staging of an automobile ride, choir rehearsal and picnic in the year 1902 makes the second act a riot of Americana. Burgess Meredith proves himself the most accomplished of young U. S. actors, neatly running the gamut of middle age and youth, inspired duffer and embittered worldling. As the inventor's crony, Russell Collins (The Group Theatre's "Johnny Johnson") gives a compelling exhibition of bluff, whimsical idealism. Lillian Gish portrays girlhood and harassed middle age with charm and feeling, gives the finest performance of her stage career. With its deftly assembled...
...divulged last week by his onetime golf teacher, Joe Mitchell, now professional at the Lake Shore Country Club in Chicago. Oilman Rockefeller had taken up the game when his horseshoe-pitching arm went dead, wished to keep his preparations secret from Mrs. Rockefeller, who already played a respectable duffer's game. Accordingly Instructor Mitchell was brought to the course every morning in Mr. Rockefeller's own closed carriage. The strange cries which occasionally sounded over the course came from guards posted to warn Mr. Rockefeller of his wife's approach. That this elaborate deception worked was illustrated...
...Loop" He works hard, loves to play. He will bet on anything, any time, for any amount from a pack of cigarets up. His favorite gambling companion is his young brother "Mike." and when they play golf there are bets on nearly every stroke. John has a duffer's swing but manages to score about...