Word: heather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather alone. U. S. lessors of Scottish estates were conspicuously few. John Pierpont Morgan was there, as were Tycoons Solomon Guggenheim, John W. Converse and Andrew Watson Armour. But many a moor was barren of beaters. Although bracken has lately been encroaching on the heather it was well filled with healthy birds, and those who had leases planned a season of hard shooting to reduce the big coveys to a few birds so that those that remained would mate and continue the supply. Further news of the Twelfth: ¶ In London bankruptcy court, Charles Lancaster Co., famed gunmakers, blamed...
...total of 151 was extraordinary over the Saunton Club's "joke" course. It is built over sand dunes with eccentrically narrow fairways and little slanted postage-stamp greens. The holes are not long but are often blind. The hazards are waist-high heather, bogs, bulrushes, traps like sand quarries, shore winds...
...Heather Reveller of Sporran, a Scotch terrier built like a midget plough horse, whose owner. Author Willard Huntington WTright ("S. S. Van Dine"), has kennels at Haworth...
...terror" of the Australian turf, arrived last week in San Francisco. A long-limbed chestnut gelding, Phar Lap (son of Night Raid, English horse, and out of Entreaty, New Zealand mare) has won 32 out of 42 races and $267,675 prize money in Australia. He was taken to Heather Stock Farm near San Francisco for conditioning before being sent to Agua Caliente to race in the $50,000 handicap there in March...
...become engaged to each other in half the civilized countries of the world, always with a vague air of being decidedly astonished at this romantic turn of events. Delicious is a fair example of their work. As soon as Miss Gaynor is seen, as a Scottish immigrant girl named Heather flitting about the steerage of a liner bound for the U. S., you know that Farrell, a polo-player returning to Long Island, will presently make his appearance from the first-class decks. You surmise that minor difficulties?an immigration official who wants to keep Miss Gaynor outside...