Word: holes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of the cycle. The story is authentic, based on the tragedy of Dr. Mudd's life. Convicted, in reality, by mob hysteria, to life imprisonment, the doctor who had unwittingly taken care of the injured John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin was sent to America's hell hole off the Florida Coast. Warner Baxter, who contributes perhaps the finest performance of his career in this picture, makes Dr. Mudd the epitome of suffering humanity. The story, ably and imaginatively directed by John Ford, is told in such a simple, straightforward manner that the somewhat fantastic melodramatic details rarely seem...
...China Clipper again left the ramp at Alameda, taxied across the harbor. Almost away, she hit a floating log, rammed a hole in her bottom, went back to the landing for repairs. At the same time Pan American elected to change all eight motors in the two Clippers to improved models. Result: Four more days delay...
...make off with two bottles of scotch. The Fromm brothers-President Edward, 44; Vice President Henry, 41; Treasurer Walter, 46; Secretary John, 42-got into the fox-raising business in 1909. They followed the trail of a fox & pups to the foxhole. They built a tent over the hole, stood guard till the young foxes came out (see cut, p. 72). Now the Fromms have 2,000 foxes running wild on their ranch near Wausau, another 4,000 in breeding Dens on a ranch near Milwaukee. The 6,000 foxes are valued at about $1,500,000. Since...
...Crimson" say that it was bad manners to refuse Hanfstaengel's Munich Scholarship because he offered it in good faith. This might be justified, except that in my opinion he did not offer it in good faith but as a rather crude attempt to put Harvard in a hole and martyrize himself...
...lads, placed under the strict guidance of three Roman Catholic priests and educated in English and arts & crafts in the Club's school, these Greensward Sons of "Father Snare" never tire of hailing his greatest greens feat. Last year on his 72nd birthday he drove for the 18th hole, needing a five to make the course in par 72. He made it in six, and every caddy still boasts this a record unbeaten and unbeatable on the Havana course by a man of the years of "Father Snare...