Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kahn family shakes its head over Roger's "speed complex." At 14 he used to ride a motorcycle up the steep sides of the bunkers on his father's golf course. He tore down his first Ford and put it together so that it was a racing car with an underslung chassis. Never did a jerky airplane bumping through a series of air pockets make him sick at his stomach...
...Golf. Two English golfer-flyers played 36 holes in one day, nine each in Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales. They played Harlech, Wales; bundled their clubs into an airplane; flew to Silloth, England; from there to Stranraer, Scotland; thence to Newcastle, Ireland...
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...vision of about two good characters?the man, he's the main thing, and the woman, very secondary. These two elements, together with my first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them go, and they work out their own destiny. I simply pull the strings. Soon, the first thing I know, I have another book ready for my publishers. It's great fun, really...
...Oppenheim likes best to write ? that is, dictate ? in the morning, but, that being his favorite time for golf, he has acquired the artificial habit of writing in the late afternoon until dinner time. He perennially roams European capitals and the U. S. picking up his cosmopolitan types and plots, chiefly in cafés and from hotel managers. His types and plots are everything. The plainest pigments of human nature are sufficient to color up the assorted shapes of the characters and show brightly as they race through skeins of intrigue...