Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a drawing of her eleven-year-old daughter, Frances ("Franja"), a lively little girl who wears her black hair in bangs and braids. To 1,000 fellow faculty members, students and friends last December went a card inscribed on the back: "Merry Christmas from the Hutchinses." On the front was the drawing of the Hutchinses' young daughter holding two candles...
...Front Cover) There are 6,000 golf courses in the U. S., 2,000 in the British Empire, only 1,000 in the rest of the world. Because two-thirds of the world's golf is played on U. S. soil, it is not surprising that U. S. golfers have the reputation of being the world's best...
...side was as formidable as ever. Captained by that same Francis Ouimet who had put U. S. golf on the front pages 25 years ago, it was the strongest and youngest team the U. S. had ever selected. The Americans, too, thought they had the best amateur golfer since Bobby Jones: 28-year-old Johnny Goodman of Omaha, U. S. Amateur champion, the best shotmaker and most consistent scorer of 1937, who had never lost a Walker Cup match (1934 or 1936). Other members of the team, chosen on the basis of performances during the past two years, were...
Born in Omaha's meat-packing district, of Lithuanian immigrant parents, John George Goodman was practically unknown when he calmly drove up to the Pebble Beach course in 1929 and qualified for the U. S. Amateur. The following day the 19-year-old Omaha Kid made the front pages when he eliminated Bobby Jones in the first round of match play. But in his home town Johnny Goodman had long been front-page news, was as much a part of Omaha as its stockyards. He first appeared in the news in 1916 when...
...front of the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, stands a 24-ft. figure of Orpheus, demigod of Music, sinewy and poised in bronze, with his great lyre lifted and one hand just sprung from the strings. In a circle of fountains below him eight listeners, wakened from death, turn outward and upward toward the music...