Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardest tournament in the world to win -composed, after the qualifying rounds, of 18-and 36-hole matches between the ablest golf professionals in the U. S.-the Professional Golfers Association Championship at Pittsburgh last week was a serious, businesslike affair. To contestants, it was important not only because of the $10,000 in prizes. The prestige of doing well in the P. G. A. is likely to enlarge a professional golfer's income from other sources. Contestants indulged in no disputes or blunders of behavior. After five days of play, four of the young men whose names appear...
...taking of an oath here and there never to fight and the dispatching of telegrams to congressmen, telegrams potent for their nuisance value. True, nothing ever happens beyond the yelling of many voices for peace. And it is probably also true as the cynic claims that those who yell hardest for peace today are first into the trenches tomorrow. "Yes," sneers the R.O.T.C. man, "I'll be an officer when...
Make Way for Tomorrow (Paramount). The fact that a good story simply told is worth more than all the box-office names, production numbers and expensive sets in Hollywood is one of those plain truths which the cinema industry finds hardest to assimilate. Consequently, if Make Way for Tomorrow makes a fortune for its producers, Hollywood can be expected to exhibit amazement. No amazement is in order. Taking a subject about which everyone has speculated—the financial insecurity of old age—the picture examines the case of Barkley Cooper (Victor Moore) and his wife Lucy (Beulah Bondi). Adapted by Vina...
Died. Colonel Sam Park, 79, U. S. vice consul at Biarritz, France since 1920, at a $1-a-year salary; at Biarritz. A retired Texas lumber & oilman who called loafing "the end and aim of my existence," he complained on recent visits to Manhattan that it took "the hardest kind of struggle" to reach a golf course...
...years of his life every twelve months," said black-browed President James Dinsmore Tew of B. F. Goodrich Co. Mr. Tew was speaking in Akron at a meeting of the Twenty Year Service Club of Goodrich employes. Because Mr. Tew has long been known as one of the hardest-working executives in Akron, he was readily believed, readily understood when he announced that he was retiring as active head of the great rubber company...