Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen him in a drawing-room in Washington, at any social affair, on a golf course or a tennis court. He has no pastimes, no recreations...
...nine years this sturdy, thick-set man with greying hair, who plays golf and tennis as zestfully as he works at physics, delved into the mysteries of atoms, ions, electrons. Often he strode into his laboratory at midnight after dinner or the theatre. For hours, in impeccable evening dress, he tried to measure infinitesimal electrons on oil droplets less than one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, checked his results many a time. At last he isolated the ion, studied its ways and habits. For this he received the Nobel Prize (TIME...
...chap. . . . and so he relates how Chester came within a chip shot of not crashing the course record, simply through a misunderstanding with his best girl about soul-satisfying, putt-producing profanity. Rollo Podmarsh is the subject of another reminiscence. Rollo was too good to be happy or play golf or make love or anything, until his small cousin put rum in his arrowroot tea. But then- And Ferdinand Dibble-there was a case-had the heart of a "goof" until his girl booed his opponent on the last tee and he finally won a match. And William Bates...
...trembling, you see me looking you in your eyes straight, not blossoming, not changing color, not ashamed or in fear. . . . "We know that you [Judge Thayer] have spoke your hostility against us with friends of yours on the train, at the University Club of Boston, on the golf club of Worcester, Mass. I am sure that if the people who know all what you say against us would have the civil courage to take the stand, maybe your Honor-I am sorry to say this because you are an old man, and I have an old father- but maybe...
...golf bug will live in his knickers...