Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of Englishmen returning from a game of golf, and armed only with golf sticks, were unable to prevent the Maharaja's emissaries from murdering the merchant Bawla in cold blood on the open highway while he was riding with Mumtaz Begum; but the golfers did succeed in driving off the natives (armed with revolvers, knives and swords) before they could do more to the girl than slash her face, permanently disfiguring...
...stupidity of an Englishman. The score was 40-15. She needed only one point for the game and set. Lenglen's return seemed to fall outside the line. Miss Wills sure she had won the set, started to change courts, when the linesman?Cyril Tolley, one-time British amateur golf-champion?told her to come back...
...trip abroad, for him alone. Perhaps, for steamship companies are very understanding, a special trip for Mrs. G. H. will be thought up later. But for the present, her husband is invited to go to Scotland, stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures he will have will be discretionary incidentals like caddy hire,* new balls, refreshments, etc., etc. The company will warm his golfing cockles. Two such...
...case you have not read the novel, Mr. Rennie impersonates a Long Island resident of no background, much money and a dubious method of getting it. Considerably in his way is the girl's husband, whose college education left him, chiefly, with a taste for liquor. The woman golf-champion and others in the semi-smart group that one presumably encounters on Long Island are also around. Mr. Fitzgerald has a home on Long Island and should know what he is laughing at; his laughter is often bitter. Perhaps that is why he is spending most of 1926 in various...
...first time important medical men attended such a dental meeting, thus prognosticating a closer integration of dental and medical knowledge. Dr. William D. Haggard, President of the American Medical Association, speaking on "Teamwork for the Health of the People," summed up: "Neglect your business if you must; neglect your golf game if you can; your wife if you dare; but do not neglect your yearly health examination...