Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crawford--Five inches of new snow on a six inch base. Good skiing on Mt. Wildcat and on golf slopes. Temperature 5 weather clear...
...delegation's committee on intellectual cooperation and moral disarmament repeated his Sunday sermon in Spanish. John L. Lewis' daughter Kathryn made friends with Electrical Worker Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L. Cordell Hull, besides beating all comers in his first try at deck golf, communed long and often at the rail with Delegate Landon. The life of the party, Mr. Landon played bridge seven hours at a stretch with Mexico's shaggy, shrewd Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najara. Submitting to an Equatorial initiation by Neptune (Eugene P. Thomas of the National Foreign Trade Council), Mr. Landon...
...went to work in a shoe shop when he was 13, borrowed $150,000 when he was 25 to buy into the embryo of his present business. He still talks of himself as a worker. Every morning when he is at home (he winters in Florida) he crams a golf cap on his balding grey head, drives himself to an E. J. factory, paces briskly down the aisles with a sharp eye out for wasters. He works from 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. (his employes work from...
...more pontifical Literary Magazine. His Great American Bandwagon (1928) is a whimsical review of U. S. eccentricities, from ukuleles to kewpie dolls. Ever one to enjoy making the best of a bad situation, Mr. Merz likes to recall that he met his wife after hitting her with a golf ball...
...lead and take action in such matters which are often hampered by mass inertia, was outstanding. Although past 70 at the time, he was the first man to volunteer as a policeman in the Boston Police Strike. He played an instrumental part in the organization of the Cambridge municipal golf club. If all Harvard entertained such a sympathetic attitude toward the outside world, there would be no town-gown problem...