Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation of sport writers looked at this immortal creature scampering about in and out of bunkers, laying approaches dead to the pin and holing 15-foot putts. "The grand old lady of golf," they cried, with customary rudeness. Mr.s. Fox, not in the least embarrassed, went on playing her steady, irreproachable game. Sixteen years ago she became a grandmother. "Afternoon naps?" she said. "None of it for me." In 1923, when she was 62, Mrs. Fox played in the Belleair Heights, Fla., tournament. In the finals she had a medal score of 77 which beat famed Glenna Collett, her opponent...
...track gambler, ran a confused story which spoke of Nick F. as "Nick the Greek." Nick the Greek (Nicholas Dandolas) is a gambler too but he seldom plays the horses. Craps, low ball, stud poker and faro are his specialties. Jack Dempsey's friend, he lost a hundred grand on the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. At last reports, Nick the Greek was alive and broke in Los Angeles...
Died. Mrs. Caleb F. Fox, 67, "grand old lady of golf"; at Elkins Park, Pa.; after a month's illness...
Died. Frederick William Louis Leopold Augustus, 71, onetime (1907-18) Grand Duke of Baden, brother of Queen Victoria of Sweden, uncle of the German Chancellor (Prince Max of Baden) who arranged the terms of the armistice, last of a line of sovereigns nine centuries old; of heart disease; at Badenweiler, Germany...
...Nicolo was elected by the Grand Council Secretary of the Republic of Florence, a lowlier post than the sound of it. For 14 years he compiled minutes, addressed envelopes, jogged ahorseback on 23 insignificant missions abroad, to say nothing of countless trips on domestic matters. Wherever he went he gleaned bits of information which he fitted into his political philosophy...