Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even. He sank his approach shot on the eighteenth for a birdie 2. Farrell's 15-foot putt hit the back of the cup and bounced out. Sarazen, who goes to Nassau yearly for a sunburn, had won the open championship of the Bahama Islands. In St. Augustine, Fla., Glenna Collett, favorite daughter of Providence, R. I., and of Robert Collett, onetime six-day bicycle rider, outdrove Virginia Van Wie on nearly every tee to win the women's Florida East Coast championship...
James Joseph Tunney (champion fisticuffer) said: "Miss Bishop is one of the loveliest girls I have ever known, but it is decidedly premature and unfair to her to suggest that we are betrothed." Cinemactress Caroline Bishop said on the same day in the same place, Miami Beach, Fla.: "I think Mr. Tunney one of the most admirable men of today, but it seems an unfair strain on our friendship for newspapers to have us engaged every time we are seen together." The New York Daily News (tabloid) said...
...Petersburg, Fla., her 104th birthday duly celebrated. Mrs. Catherine Fenton of Jamestown, N. Y., went up for her first airplane ride last week. She rode with George W. Haldeman, who piloted Ruth Elder to a spot in the Atlantic somewhere near the Azores. Said Mrs. Fenton: "I am happy, O, so happy...
...Petersburg, Fla., nineteen-year-old Jeanne Durand wanted to set a new world's record for a parachute jump. Last week she climbed onto the wing of a plane, 15,000 feet in the air, and let go. Her parachute caught on the plane and she faced certain death until Dr. R. L. Ellis, her pilot, brought the ship safely to earth on one wheel and a wing tip, leaving her safe, grateful...
...expression which is seen on the faces of people pitching horseshoes. It is an expression dreamy yet intense, a good deal like that worn by anyone who is composing poetry or worrying about his digestion. This was the expression which through a warm afternoon last week in St. Petersburg, Fla., appeared on the face of Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake...