Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With a minimum of effort, he got results that would please many a top-flight white golfer: rounds of 68, 73, 72, 71- on a tough, hilly course he had never seen before. His 284 not only won the tournament and first prize of $200 but set a new record for the Negro championship-just three strokes...
With the Wabash running a close second, the most musically celebrated of U. S. rivers is probably the misnamed Swanee.* But during the past year suburban Connecticut's sluggish Saugatuck has meandered into the national consciousness. Last March the arty town of Westport, on its banks, got into an argument with itself about whether or not to become "the U. S. Salzburg" (TIME, March...
...Stephen Foster, U. S. composer of the song Way Down upon the Swanee River (properly called Old Folks at Home), had never seen Florida's Suwannee River about which his song was written, got the misspelled name from an old map. Once the song was written it was impossible to correct the spelling, because the tune calls for a word of two syllables, and the real Suwannee has three...
...Pills. Ltd., Veno Drug Co.) was taking the cure at Carlsbad, the London Investor's Review printed a joshing jingle. Excerpt: I've tried all Beecham's products, I've absorbed the stomach powder . . . Iron Jelloids, Veno's Cough-cure (but my cough got only louder) . . . And so I've come to Carlsbad, and I sip the filthy water . . . Proprietary medicines-are they everything they oughter...
...Paris, Georges Meunier saw a dog coming towards him. whose looks he did not like at all. Fearing that the dog was about to bite him, Georges Meunier bit the dog first. Police arrested him. Said Georges Meunier: "I decided to get him before he got me. Anyhow, I never knew it was an offense to bite...