Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Louis always captained the baseball teams. He dived from the highest branch by the swimming hole on Tinker's Creek He led his class in high school. At 15, he took over the local Epworth League and made it into a tri-city organization which embraced two neighboring towns. In the fall of 1908,17-year-old Louis Johnson, handsome, strapping and 6 ft.1 in. tall, descended on the University of Virginia at Charlottesville...
Last week, without any explanation, the Federal District government forbade minstrels to play on buses, on pain of jail or fine. But the order had a hole in it. Hereafter, it read, drivers must stop their buses and call a cop whenever the music starts...
...finals, Willie Turnesa was tougher. The wind blew and thunder cracked overhead as he and Sam fought their way round 36 holes. As late as the 32nd hole Willie was i up. But Sam McCready dug into the old sod and finished with a birdie on the 35th to win the title, 2 and i. Said a Portmarnock Club official: "The kindly Irish weather came to our help." Said Sam, grasping the 2-ft. trophy: "Baby...
...stinks. You go to town and already it's a big production. All I want to do is throw a little talk around--casual talk. And private. Private. Why the hell can't I? It's my room isn't it? I pay rent on the hole. It would be pretty nice to find a girl who could listen to Brunis records with you. All right--so that's not all. So you smooch a little. They do it in the best repressed families. Or hasn't the Dean heard...
...tough league. In Oklahoma City, Ben once got hornswoggled in a match race against an Indian quarter-horse. The Indians dug a hole in the lane Ben's horse was to run in, filled it with straw and covered it with dirt. When Ben's horse hit the hole, she went sprawling and the Indians took his money. Since then Ben has been pretty thorough about inspecting tracks before a race...