Word: featly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time was ready to stop waiting in the locker-room. He joined the crowd that was waiting at the 18th green to watch Sarazen play his 286th shot, an 8-ft. putt. It was a noisy crowd, impatient to cheer Sarazen for equaling Bobby Jones's unique feat of winning the British and U. S. Opens in the same year. The crowd swarmed over the traps, over the edge of the green, past the course marshals until there was only a tight 20-ft. circle around Sarazen and his ball. Perkins tried to look over the heads in front...
...District Track in San Francisco, Jockey W. C. ("Bill") Clancy performed a great feat. He won a steeplechase and a flat race on the same afternoon. Last week, in Brookline, Mass., another jockey performed the same feat: George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick won the Metropolitan Driving Club, a 1-1/16-mi. flat race, on J. F. Byers'. Glaneur, then the Chamblet Memorial steeplechase on Mrs. Ambrose Clark's Madrigal II. There was only one thing to diminish Jockey Bostwick's satisfaction at having equalled such a celebrated record. He had done it once before. Two weeks...
...form of the True, the Beautiful and the Good, as approved by philosophers, improved by artists, lived by the saints. To discover about the True, discover Truth's elation, it is necessary for a man to read philosophy, more necessary for him to think philosophically. To accomplish this feat the Abbe suggests that a man try to put himself in Adam's bare feet, look at the world with newborn eyes, try to answer the whys and hows his mind will naturally ask. That is philosophy. Its reward is less in getting questions answered than...
...gladhand man" at $10,000 a year under Barren Collier (car cards). Terminal Cab Corp. (General Motors subsidiary) gives him another $10,000 a year. He told Inquisitor Seabury last week that he had taken Mayor Walker over to Brooklyn early one Sunday morning to witness a feat of alchemy. A chemical company which Senator Hastings partly owned with Publisher Paul Block thought it had a way to manufacture gold out of baser metal. The alchemy did not work, but the company was happily discovered to have a tile which just suited the requirements of the Board of Transportation...
...widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...