Word: holes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from her Belgian husband a profitable shaving cream business (Shavex). Fiftyish, she heads three corporations, is a director of twelve. She claims that she sleeps on two hours a night, is never tired. In her swank Kensington home she fondles a fine collection of Oriental objets d'art, hole spiritualist meetings, makes phonograph records of them. Lately she has been untiring in behalf of one Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader...
...National Golf Course, playing his last round in the Augusta Masters' Tournament, Golfer Gene Sarazen last week made the greatest shot of his career. Hit with a spoon, from a difficult downhill lie, his ball flew smoothly to a green 220 yd. away. It rolled slowly toward the hole. It dropped...
...vivid, poisonous green. And I feel the cold shivers on my spine when I realize that I stepped within a foot of one of them, one that did not strike and did not rattle, but like a silent thing uncoiled at my very feet and crawled toward a hole in a clump of greasewood. I shot it three times and killed it. It had thirteen rattles on its stubby tail. I sweat now to think of that, how I started to brush between two clumps of bushes and saw it at my very feet, how I leaped like...
...loving. But life in a New Mexican ranch house, however comfortably fixed up, is fraught with more than contemplation. Chatelaine Luhan finds it strenuous: "For every single time I have to attend to anything, whether it's a horse, or a telegram from goodness knows who, or a hole in the wall, or getting the windows washed, it is a distinct effort, like climbing a hill. . . ." When she can occasionally take a day in bed with an incipient cold, it is a great relief. "Nothing to do for a whole day-not to have to cope! I am able...
Just then a Lincoln town car sweeps up to the curb and out steps a merry old man with a flower in his button-hole...