Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author of a concise and accurate sketch of Mr. Baker: "His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Sunday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes...
Died. Patrick Grant 2nd, 39, one-time (1907) centre on the Harvard University football eleven, one-time (1919) Pennsylvania Amateur Golf Champion; suddenly in Philadelphia, after falling five floors from his office window...
...Goldstein had a warrant for Dr. Miller's arrest, on behalf of Mrs. Miller. The surgeon was suing her for divorce, charging her with cruelty, impairing his health, refusing to associate with his mother and sisters, and ridiculing his father's favorite game (golf). Mrs. Miller wanted alimony. Of the details Mr. Goldstein cared not. He had his warrant to serve...
...Golf Track...
...19th Hole. Frank Craven has written a golf comedy. He introduces a hero who is chiefly interested in stained glass; introduces this hero to a bag of golf clubs; proceeds to develop the domestic difficulties of this hero. Soon a menace appears in the form of a domineering colonel, to whom the dreamy hero refuses to pay a golf wager because he thinks the Colonel cheated. Actor Craven plays more craftily than he writes. The loudest laugh of the piece greets Mr. Craven's plaintive protest that he did not vilify the Colonel; simply said he was sunk...