Word: hagens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jowled Walter Hagen, who used to be the best putter in the world, pleased his gallery by catching a rabbit hemmed in by the crowd...
...yapping inconsistency of the foreman, Carl, a self-styled efficiency expert who understood practically nothing of the factory's detail but who had been recently imported to cut costs, rush orders through. When the lights went out and the machinery stopped, Carl blamed his chief enemy, Hagen, a good workman of 20 years' service in the factory who never hid his contempt of Carl. While Carl sent his yes-men blundering through the darkness on futile errands, Hagen and the old hands quietly handled the emergency...
...again, or shutting down the factory for the night, Carl fretted and fumed, let discontent and darkness bring to a head what might have become a riot. When the men came back to work after the holiday Carl had fired a crowd of the best workers, among them Hagen. A strike followed, feeling grew uglier day by day. Finally the police shot a scab by mistake, thinking he was a picketer. One of the strikers' leaders was arrested for the crime. When Carl and his higher-ups decided that the police were not giving them enough help they armed...
...America today." Chautauqua music lovers hear their own symphony conducted by Albert Stoessel. a Little Symphony conducted by Georges Barrere, solos and lectures by Ernest Hutcheson, John Erskine, many another. Plays presented by the Cleveland Playhouse included last year Hay Fever, Twelfth Night, There's Always Juliet. Walter Hagen described Chautauqua's 18-hole golf course as "one of the best in western New York." Outdoor sports are permitted on Sunday as on all other days. "An administrative committee ... is laying the foundation for a distinguished [1934] program, surpassing in many ways anything Chautauqua has done in recent...
...three essential qualities that a championship golfer must possess are incentive, enthusiasm, and coolness under pressure. The absence of one of these qualities in the make-up of a golfer is an inestimable handicap. Such hardened campaigners as Walter Hagen, George Von Elm, and Johnny Farrell appear to have lost their incentive or driving power; that certain spark of enthusiasm has been lacking in their play recently, and consequently, they have failed to finish among the leaders. On the other hand, many young players such as Munger, Goodman, Dunlap, Fischer, Somerville, and many others have been winning recent tournaments. These...