Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next pilgrimage was to a certain spot on the streamlet for which West Branch* is named. Part of the villagers' preparations had been to restore, with a dam, what used to be the Old Swimming Hole. The Nominee eyed the work and then said to Newton C. Butler, one of the three playmates of his youth whom he had found still in West Branch: "No, this is not the place at all. I think it is up yonder by that tree...
Outside his business and his family, Publisher Block has few interests. On his 200-acre estate near Greenwich, Conn., he has a picturesque nine-hole golf course, but his game is indifferent. He once played 13 consecutive holes in fives. It was a triumph he has neither forgotten nor repeated. Occasionally, he rides one of his saddle horses. Occasionally, he takes a hand in running the estate, as this summer, when his gardeners reported that his lake was leaking. For the most part he leaves the house and grounds to his wife. He asks only that he can bring...
...Frances W. Capper made a hole-in-one at the Chestnut Hill Golf Club in Brookline, Mass. Then, just for practice, she took another shot from the same tee and, after a brisk walk of 150 yards, picked two balls out of the same...
...thrown bombs. Now a wall of the O. G. P. U. building gaped with a great jagged hole. As the white clad stretcher bearers rushed within, a crowd of ambulance chasers gathered speculatively upon the pavement. Perhaps they would see the great V. G. Menzhinsky, Chief of the "Cheka," carried forth, maimed and bleeding upon a strip of canvas stretched between two poles...
...contrivance was steel framed, nine feet in diameter, with a sealed hole in the top and a ballast to make it stay upright. After completing it, Jean Lussier had been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...