Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theatre Guild, and, therefore, supposedly a gentleman of taste, has just issued his mild endorsement of the cake-eater. Henry Wilton, pompous, ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee for Congress. Evidently, Congress is Mr. Wilton...
ITEMS IMPORTED VALUE Golf Balls $1,000,000 Pipes and Smoker Doodads 2,000,000 Caviar 305,954 Lobster, Canned 2,464,208 Citronella...
...aristocracy there also, whose spacious country homes you come to while driving out of town on the well-paved roads. There are the Chathams, the Grays, Haneses,* the Reynoldses, whose sons and daughters go north and abroad for school, clothes, weddings. They have a sporty little polo club, foxhunting, golf. You will see the vast Reynolds estate, like an English baronial holding with its tenant church and tenant school. And then you will hear of the finest roads in the U. S., the greatest educational strides in the South. All is orderly, vigorous, progressive. Before you leave town you will...
...responded by dashing perpetually from one to another. Then, tired of Pullman cars, he bought, for a million dol lars, the Long Island palace of the late and notorious Captain De La Mar, mineral millionaire. There, with miles of lawn, a garage as big as a depot, a private golf course, a swimming pool, he enjoys thg amenities that life offers to the successful-among them, now, a bit of ribbon...
...contestants with daring-do worthy of a new champion. Sturdy Gene Sarazen, leader of the first day's match stepped forward, as did swart Johnny Farrell, ahead the second day, to shake the hand of wee Macdonald Smith, final victor on the third day, in the Canadian Open Golf Tournament last week. Came then the departing champion, nervous Leo Diegel, followed by many another Yankee guest and Canadian host, howbeit the latter had retained for themselves for best but seventh place...