Word: elm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to pick out the two most contrasting personalities in the field of 144 golfers who were playing in the U. S. Open tournament at Inverness last week, you might have selected the two who tied for the championship after 72 holes. One was George Von Elm, a trim blond haired little man with self confidence so noticeable that it approaches conceit, who played in the Open last year as an amateur. A few months later, describing himself as a "business man golfer" he set about playing against professionals for money prizes, made a good business of it by tying...
Last week Thomas William Lament, outstanding Morgan partner, went back to Exeter, whence he was graduated in 1888, strolled about the elm-shaded Yard, greeted friends and classmates, some 2,000, who like him had come back to the old school to celebrate her 150th birthday. From the Yard Mr. Lament could not see the modern, red-brick Lament Infirmary, whose crack contagious ward is an echo of the time Mr. Lamont had scarlet fever at Exeter.* But he could see the modest basement offices of the school paper, the Exonian, where his sons, Corliss and Austin ("Egg"), spent much...
...front yard of the White House President Hoover planted a small elm tree as part of the American Tree Association's program to plant ten million saplings to commemorate George Washington's bicentennial next year. Remarked the President: "Perhaps I should have planted a cherry tree to take the place of the one chopped down by George Washington years...
...meretricious medievalsm and stale iconography" of the ornament on the library cannot perhaps be justified, but it hardly "monumentalizes the vulgarity of the American educator's mind." If the lighting and ventilating systems cost more than windows, at least the mighty walls shut out some of the din of Elm Street. If steel girders can be used to advantage in supporting stone, "architectural falsity" need not prevent it. And there are probably many who would welcome the conversion of more telephone booths into fourteenth century confessionals...
...Golfers George Von Elm and Leo Diegel: a match against Mortie Dutra and Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Golfer Jones is now performing in Warner Bros, golf talkies. Current rumor about what Jones will do next summer: tour the U. S. in exhibition matches, sponsored by Warner Bros., starting at the Winchester Country Club near Boston with Francis Ouimet as partner...