Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Isles there are 750,000 golfers-esquires who dig their own graves with their niblicks, Englishmen wha' ha' wi' Wallace bled their shillings on every green, Scots wahighing their short approaches, wahoing the long grass with their mashies, plus-four scorers who shyly admit that the only shot they are sure of is their fourth putt. Even of these, many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch...
...Woods also announced in his letter that Captain Hewetson of the Cambridge team will be unable to make the trip. The Englishmen will be bandlecapped by his loss since he is a prospect for high jumping honors...
...regular season, according to Coach Farrell, will be the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet on July 11. The date for this meet was originally set for a week earlier and there was considerable difficulty in arranging it so as to satisfy both the English and American teams. The Englishmen would have been unable to bring over some of their most formidable material and at the suggestion of the University the later date was offered to enable them to present a complete line-up. Among the men whom the Harvard-Yale forces will have most to fear in the meet...
...Wilhelm II offer condolences?" and quotes the Prague Tageblatt as saying: "One would think that Emperor Wilhelm would today somehow feel himself still connected with the fate of the German people and would join in the mourning when that Nation is overtaken by a loss for which Frenchmen and Englishmen express their sympathy. The Governments of Paris and London have condoled, but the German at Doom remains silent...
...starts off stoutly enough with a fearful kaffir curse by which three Englishmen and an American are to die. The British mortality is high by the ending act, but the American, naturally, survives. If they do it in London? which they will not?the three-in-one nationalities must be shuffled...