Word: ferrier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FERRIER...
...Manhattan show of the Empire Cat Club, the Siamese Cat Society of America, and the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, cats, mice and rats were reduced to an uncomfortable common denominator. To naive news reporters who supposed the show would be a one-sided Saturnalian feast, Rev. R. W. Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y., moving spirit of the Mouse Fanciers, boasted: "The rats and mice in this show aren't nervous, as you sentimentally suppose...
Mouse Queen Blowers would like to make the U. S. mouse-conscious. Already the U. S. has its mouse organization: the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, about 35 members led by Rev. R. Willoughby Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y. In November the U. S. will be introduced to Mouse Queen Blowers and several hundred of her choicest mice at a Manhattan cat show...
...other, curly-haired Robert Sweeny, who lives in London and plays from a British club, had, after a terrific match, put out Scotland's famed Jack McLean at the 20th hole but, in another terrific match the next day, he had lost to James Ferrier. It was Ferrier now who seemed entirely capable of taking the title back to New South Wales. Amateur champion of Australia at 22, a huge young man whose crude swing is capable of propelling the ball 350 yd., he had won most of his matches with disheartening ease. When he disposed of Alec Hill...
...final's first twelve holes, Ferrier, putting brilliantly, was three up. Stubborn Thomson, son of a professional golfer, won the 14th, 15th and 16th and the afternoon round started with the match all even. Thomson finished the first nine two up. Ferrier cut it down to one up at the "Road Hole," the 17th, with a 4 to Thomson's 5. On the 18th green, Thomson's second shot stopped rolling six inches from the pin. Ferrier's stopped 30 feet away. Ferrier nodded, conceded the kind of match that makes old Scotsmen smoke their...