Word: graveyard
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...golf, but they did not get around to organizing the Royal & Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews until 1754. Fortnight ago, little George T. Dunlap Jr., U. S. amateur champion, Johnny Goodman, U. S. open champion, and Boston's spectacled Francis Ouimet, stood with bared heads in the Graveyard of St. Andrews Cathedral. There, in the very Mecca of golfdom, lay many of the game's great dead. Golfer Ouimet solemnly laid a bunch of yellow flowers on the still-fresh grave of Golfer Andra Kirkaldy, longtime St. Andrews professional. Golfers Dunlap and Goodman had flowers...
...small Asolo, northwest of Venice, townspeople took a day off last week to commemorate the great Italian actress who, dying in Pittsburgh, Pa., was buried in the Asolo graveyard exactly ten years ago. In her honor they dedicated a Duse Square, opened a museum of Duse memorabilia, rang up the first curtain on a Duse theatre...
...story is stuffed like a haggis with hearty anecdotes: the practical joker who put a fresh-killed pig in the bed of the town drunkard; the man who could find no peace & quiet in his quarrelsome house, took his evening paper out in the graveyard to read; the sweet Alice who was known as "the Roarer and Greeter," not because she was hospitable but because anything out-of-the-way made her roar and greet (howl and cry); the town villain's tale of Robbie Burns's entry into heaven...
ALTHOUGH the old South is rapidly passing, there are yet a few localities to which the rattle of modern machinery has not brought prosperity--where sandy reads wind leisurely over cotton fields, where darkies sing at evening in the old plant disturbed tranquillity atop the graveyard hickory. It is of such an Arcadian backwater that Mrs. Julia Peterkin writes in her new book, "Roll, Jordan, Roll," a charming series of sketches on the Gullahs of South Carolina...
...about Broadway columnists. This winter they are about city room celebrities demoted to writing advice to the lovelorn. Part comedy, part melodrama, Hi, Nellie shows how Bradshaw (Paul Muni) retrieves his city editorship by digging up the inside story on a vanished judge whose corpse he finds in a graveyard where it was placed by gangsters...