Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Mellon rounded off his long program of Liberty Loan refinancings like a golfer who, having made par or better at almost all previous holes, encounters trouble at the final hole and has to accept a large figure to complete an otherwise happy scorecard...
...green, which was encircled by the gallery. None saw where the ball lighted, save that it plopped somewhere among the spectators. Everyone looked at everyone else. One spectator felt in his pocket, found the ball, in embarrassment dropped it on good ground. Not inexcusably Von Elm lost the hole, but won the match with Dr. (not dental) William Tweddell...
...search to discover these facts kept 48 planes busy for two days. The keen eyes of Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, president of the Curtiss Flying Service, were the first to spot the wreckage-an ugly hole in the dark green woods below...
Postmaster I. O. Yoder, a remote cousin, entertained at lunch. All afternoon there were conferences and buzz-buzzings in a big tent pitched behind the high school. Dinner was a Hoover-family reunion at Remote Cousin Ralph Branson's (on whose farm was the swimming hole...
...home-coming." He talked about his and their pioneer ancestors; about his first schoolteacher, Mrs. Molly Brown Carran, who was present, gazing up through thick-lensed eyeglasses at her prodigious pupil. He recalled Iowa's apples, rabbits, nuts, fishing. He returned again to the Old Swimming Hole: "As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole," he said. "But I doubt if the decrease in mothers' grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy...