Word: holes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cameras. In a specially-built box, twelve feet long, four feet wide, facing the thrones from a corner of the chancel, three still photographers and two movie cameramen were the eyes of the world. The still plates were handed out through a hole to a waiting messenger, sped in cars to the Central News Agency, headquarters for all services, to be flashed over the world by radio. In New York, the Abbey pictures were ready for reproduction within two hours, but were not very clear. Next evening Aviators Dick Merrill & Jack Lambie took off from Southport, Lancashire...
...talk with Mr. Santayana it is as difficult to pigeon-hole him as a "type" as it is to pigeon-hole his philosophy. He's not an American, though he was educated there; he's not a Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...
...Professional Golfer Henry Cotton : the $5,000 Silver King Tournament: with a 72-hole score of 279, same as the number of his clubhouse locker; at Moor Park, England...
Overflow crowds of Freshmen that for years past made the annual Smoker Harvard's nearest approach to a Black Hole of Calcutta have not struggled for air in vain. The Class of 1940 is moving into Memorial Hall...
...city life combined. A chappie was entertaining the assembled throng telling about a golf game with one of his friends. It was a game where there'd been a certain amount of boozing before, and the caddie could dish one up from time to time. At the third hole, a short one of about a hundred yards, things were looping along...