Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad. The Crocker First National Bank was created by Charles Crocker with the single sweeping gesture of writing a check for $500,000. Banker Crocker inherited the First National, has many times multiplied the family wealth. At Yale (class of '82) he specialized in boxing, now plays excellent golf and rides daily. He arrives at his office at 9:05, leaves at 4:55. At the Burlingame station his horse and groom await him. He smokes $1 cigars, occasionally takes a cocktail. Outside interests include politics (he is a Republican National Committeeman). University of California and Lick Observatory...
...Golf gave one of Dr. Horace Gray's (Chicago) middle-aged patients a pain in the back. Then another patient came in with the same sort of ache at the base of his spine. And shortly a third. But the last was a polo player. The three were enough for Dr. Gray to decide that he had discovered a new recreational malady - wrenched backs in men between 35 and 45 - and he hastened last week to notify the profession. Quick swings of the polo mallet twist stiffened spines. In golf the cause is the "brisk, snappy twist...
Ezra Cornell, grandson of University Founder Ezra Cornell (see p. 51) in San Rafael, Cal., last week, drove a golf ball, killed a cow, claimed a "birdie." Other reported golf incidents: in Warren, Ohio, Dr. E. D. Hoover holed in one on the third (195 yd.), his co-golfer George Jones followed him to the tee, holed in one, too; in Los Angeles, Francis Stevens Jr., defeated his father in the semi-finals of the State championship, thereby winning from father a seat in the Stock Exchange and permission to marry. Golfer Stevens Jr. did not, however, win the State...
...they sold $147,465,448 worth of merchandise. Mr. Kresge, however, has not forgotten boyhood days on a Pennsylvania farm when he rose at 4:30 a. m. and worked till dark. His clothing is still inexpensive, and he will search long for a lost golf ball. He is a solid, round, quiet man except when he is aroused against the Big Demon Rum or the Little Devil Tobacco or one of the many other worldly evils in combatting which the Kresge fortune has been freely expended...
...special park near the Ocean House has been engaged for the annual base-ball game, and those who wish to play golf will have the privilege of the North Shore Golf and Country Club at Salem. Dinner will be served at the New Ocean House at 7 o'clock...