Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people try to make themselves friendly by telling how terrible the old Post is getting to be. The Post is a pretty successful publishing enterprise. It makes a few pennies and has a few readers. . . . We are not addressing ourselves to thoughtful gentlemen who sit in club windows on Fifth Avenue and read editorials in the [New York] Times. We are not appealing to the smart, fashionable rich or to the intellectuals and intelligentsia...
...Mitchell who, exhausted and keyed up by waiting, played badly and was badly beaten. This time Hagen, with a tall detective beside him, got to the course an hour early and waited for Compston. The Englishman laid him a stymie at the first hole, was three up at the fifth; Hagen sliced his drive into a ditch at the sixth and picked up; at the seventh Compston outdrove him by 50 yards. Hagen had 148 for the first 36 holes. Compston...
Ethel Barrymore was alarmed and vexed when she learned that her 18-year-old son, spry Samuel Colt, was wanted by the police department of Manhattan. After an evening of gamboling, young Colt drove his auto through Fifth Avenue at 55 miles per hour. Hailed by a traffic officer, he was ordered to appear in court. When he neglected to do so, returning instead to Roxbury School, a warrant was issued for his immediate arrest. Doubtless thoroughly scared by this development, spry Samuel Colt surrendered himself to the court before the warrant had been served. A fine...
...University match will be the fifth played by the Crimson outfit, and judging from the results of former contests of the season, the outcome is in doubt...
After and uneventful fifth frame, Cutts batted in another run, after Jones had drawn a pass. This single brought Cutts tally of hits up to two, one third of his team's total for the afternoon...