Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford does not like modern dances, thinks the old ones will come back, is preparing a book to show why. He has also written a pamphlet against cigaret smoking and a discourse on why English should be a universal language. He collects American antiques. He has built a golf course for his employes and plays on it. He has opinions on politics; opinions and a hand in business. Age (62) cannot wither his infinite variety. He is always riding in many vehicles...
...time (1917-25) Congressman Everett Sanders of Indiana (returned by preference, not by the electorate). Mr. Sanders is married. He and his wife are spending the summer at Swampscott. The voracious photographers of the press petitioned Mrs. Sanders to let them take her picture. She consented-in golf togs-posed on the golf course of the New Ocean House. A golf ball was dropped in a hazard. She took a firm stance, faced the camera and was snapped-with her club grounded on the sand behind the ball...
...game of golf ? That seemed a good idea and in due course a member of the Earl's party drove a straight, low ball over the fairway. The sight of this small, white object skimming over the grass and then bumping its way along attracted the attention of a neighboring bear which promptly gave chase. Along the fairway galloped the bear, both beady eyes fixed upon the white spheroid rollicking on ahead...
...fists . . . the pumping of great black legs. Is this all that Negro gentlemen know of sport ? Last week, those dolts who ha.ve derived their views on the colored race from the stale gags of minstrel shows were amazed to discover that at Westfield, N. J., there is a Negro golf club-the Shady Rest Country Club. Broad piazzas it has, sofas, rocking-chairs, lounges, loggias, beds, in which a tired golfer-or one who may in the future play golf-can catch 40 winks. It has a dance hall, a dining-room, a grill, a reception hall, a ladies...
...only colored golf professional in the world...