Word: hectoring
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...well as canny natives on the Ayrshire coast during his practice rounds since landing in the British Isles the week before. Others fancied were: Defending Champion Robert Sweeny, American-born Londoner who is famed for the elegance of his Ascots as well as the elegance of his swing; Scot Hector Thomson who won the title in 1936 and holds the course record at Troon; John Stevenson, a local sensation who knew every clump of gorse on the course. Boy Bruen had passed up the Amateur to save his energy for the Walker Cup matches...
...galleries between his shots and played the pitch-&-run like a native, proceeded to eliminate: 1) two-time Champion Cyril Tolley in the quarter-finals (during which he made the most sensational shot of the week, an eagle 2 on the 372-yd. second hole), 2) onetime Champion Hector Thomson in the semifinals, and 3) seasoned Cecil Ewing in the final...
Father of modern orchestration was an excitable red-headed Frenchman named Hector Berlioz, who lived in the middle 19th Century. From him such romantic composers as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, such impressionists as Claude Debussy, learned many a trick of the trade. Erratic but forceful, Composer Berlioz, an original in his day, was insatiably concerned with orchestral instruments. He studied them all, speculated on their possibilities, wrote a book about them, dreamed of gigantic orchestras with platoons of trumpets and battalions of violins. When he composed he often wrote for large combinations of instruments. One such work is his Requiem...
...iron & steel exports were 36% above 1929, 192% above 1936. Rolled steel exports amounted to 2,337,970 gross tons against 1,040,630 for the first eleven months last year. Hence the arrival last week of the Earl of Dudley and a committee including Hector Dieudonne, director general of Comptoir Metallurgique Luxembourgeois, sales organization of the cartel...
Second honors, and the first Boylston Prize went to Laird McK. Ogle '37, for his recitation in Greek of Hector's farewell to Andromache from the sixth book of Homer's Iliad. Both these winners receive $50 each...