Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealthy wing. Tukoji Rao III was furious. One day when Bawla and Mumtaz Begum were out driving, a band of thugs hired by the Maharaja set upon them, stabbed Bawla to death, were only prevented from killing Mumtaz Begum by a group of Englishmen returning from a go of golf, armed with drivers, mashies, putters. In the ensuing scandal the Maharaja was obliged to abdicate in favor of his son. He fell in love soon after with a girl from Seattle named Nancy Miller, who was given a Hindu purification and then made his wife...
...prove that Hines got $500 a month for permitting professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...
...Mildred (Riddle), is his boyhood sweetheart from La Grande, Ore. She tends their two children, Mildred (9), and Bill Jr. or "Bumble" (7), with only the aid of a colored house man named Rochester at their roomy, rented home on the edge of the city. Besides work he likes golf, bridge, wild life and sunsets...
...fastest racquet game of all. The bats have small circular heads with long shafts, cost about $8, break at an alarming rate. The balls, worth about 60?, are made of tightly wrapped strips of cloth wound with twine and covered like a baseball, are slightly smaller than a golf ball, have put players' eyes out. With recovering, costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall handball, kin to pelota, pallone and other Basque games, it was probably originated by bored debtors in Fleet Street prison about 1800. Like court tennis...
Most meteors or "shooting stars" are no bigger than a pin-head or at most a golf ball. Their great light energy is generated by the terrific speeds at which they hit the earth's atmosphere...