Word: golf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constant stream of visitors-from China's Chen Li-fu to ex-Rival Harold Stassen (who was given the job of rebutting Harry Truman's Labor Day speech). In his few free moments, Dewey relaxed with his family, one day banged out a record 83 in a golf tournament for the press...
...Amateur golf championship is almost anybody's tournament: not since Lawson Little (who won in 1934 and 1935) has a golfer taken the title two years in a row. At the Memphis Country Club last week, five former titleholders were among the 210 golfers seeking the crown of California's Defending Champion Robert H. ("Skee") Riegel...
...Miniature golf courses, the rage of the depression, were springing up all around Chicago again...
...Leiden, Juliana wrote a three-act comedy called Bluebeard. It was a slightly Shavian version of the story, with Bluebeard depicted as a psychiatrist and golf enthusiast; Juliana herself played one of Bluebeard's wives. Another time, she tried her hand at poetry; her anonymous entry in a class contest was judged "song of the year." The refrain went...
...golf, "Do not attempt to irritate partner by spending too long looking for your lost ball. This is unsporting. But the [good] gamesman makes a great and irritatingly prolonged parade of spending extra time looking for his opponent's ball...