Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young army officers) and his daughter married into one of Japan's four wealthiest families. For long he has rebelled at the army's proposal; last week it was rumored that, for the sake of his conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months he and other moderates in his Cabinet have conducted a gallant, ineffective rearguard action against army-dominated colleagues. Premier Prince Konoye quit, so did Finance Minister Ikeda...
...many de-nicotinized cigarets down to ragged little stubs. In his enthusiasm he lunches in his laboratory on sandwiches, coffee and condensed cream, perhaps with the bloody carcass of a rat in the sink at his elbow and surrounded by jars of pickled pigeon specimens. He used to play golf but has given it up, used to be a bachelor, but gave that up also almost at the age of 60, when he married...
Musicomedy find of the season is vivacious 20-year-old Mary Martin of Leave It to Me. A newcomer to Broadway, she has gladdened Bald Head Row and rear balcony alike with her spirited singing of My Heart Belongs to Daddy: While tearing off a game of golf I may make a play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through 'Cause my heart belongs to daddy. One night last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet...
...Missouri farm in 1881, he made a fortune in San Francisco real estate, has lately majored in mortgages and mines as well as land banks in which he has an investment of some $19,000,000. He claims to have had no vacation in 35 years, plays golf in the 70s and on his desk has a picture, not of Giannini, but of Napoleon...
MIAMI, Fla.--Harold "Jug" McSpaden of Winchester, Mass wan the biggest prize of his tournament career to day when he shot a one-under par 69 to turn back a savage, last-round threat by Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., in the Miami open golf championship...