Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list closed yesterday with 185 men entered. In the first day's play yesterday, the ten seeded players came through without a mishap and Coach Harry Cowles expects to glean some excellent material from this array of racquet candidates. Among the most promising of these is M.T. Hill '30, holder of last year's national junior doubles championship. Hill graduated from Loomis School last spring and has been widely heralded as one of the best junior prospects in years...
Council Sits. At the first session of this "1926 Council," Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann appeared, pink and portly, as the first representative of Germany, to sit at the Council table. Reaching into his breast pocket he pulled out a long white cigar holder, clipped a fat Havana, and settled back behind a peaceful smoke wreath. As a matter of courtesy and alphabetical precedence the chairmanship of the Council was offered to the Representative of Germany (Allemagne). Beaming, Dr. Stresemann declined the honor on the ground that he does not speak French, the language in which the Council is ordinarily...
...Baltusrol course. The ball disappeared over a highway on his left. He tried another, whacked it after its fellow. A third ball also, journeyed to limbo. A fourth landed on the fairway. The golfer, having now played seven, took 12 for the hole (par 5). He was Robert Gardner, holder of many golf titles, U. S. Walker cup team captain, setting forth to qualify for the national amateur. It was just one of those freak episodes that can happen in golf tournaments, even to champions. He did not qualify...
...also a World Courter. In fact, he challenged Governor Elaine to a debate on the subject. The Governor could not be bothered; one of his henchmen offered to substitute. Whereupon, the Senator said sweetly that he "could hardly accept the challenge of a scared man's bottle holder or towel slinger." The Governor replied that the Senator is merely "a Coolidge rubber stamp...
...enacted exactly as Mr. Galsworthy planned it. Sir Thomas Lipton was the oaken figure at the foot of the table. The tea business, a shareholder hinted, had far outgrown the ability of its founder. It needed, perhaps, a younger man - Sir John Ferguson, director of finance. Another share holder pointed out that the company's overdraft at the bank was ?10,000 in March. He would like to know what it was today...