Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Wright Stewart, 62, is 6 ft., 1 in. tall, weighs 240 Ibs., and has four children. As a youngster he drove oxen on his father's farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he plays golf and goes to prize fights. He is one of the burliest and most outspoken men in the public...
...There have been colored golf balls recently (TIME, Dec. 31). White boxing gloves were planned for Illinois. Last week, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association announced trials of a red tennis ball, said 10 possess increased visibility...
Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists, anxious to improve his golf, engaged as private tutor Leo Diegel, famed professional, paying him some say $12,000 for six weeks...
Locker room wit is not out of place in Follow Thru for the plot concerns golf; its hero is a young professional, his romance begins when he agrees to give lessons to a pretty girl and comes to its proper conclusion when she beats a rival in love and .port. The story winds happily about the verandas, hallways, fairways and even the ladies' dressing room in an Elysian country club, encouraged by nymphs of whom none have passed the age of indiscretion, all dancing to Henderson, Brown & de Sylvan melodies...
Naturally the "Most American of Frenchmen" kept as mum about his plans, last week, as did a typical U. S. tycoon. (See INTERNATIONAL.) Interviewed, he admitted only that during the holidays he had kept up his golf.? To questions about "The Program of Realization" he curtly and characteristically replied, without attempting humor or evasion, "Rien, maintenant, messieurs!" (Nothing to say, at present, gentlemen...