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Word: holing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rough at dusk, the Wrecking Crew. . . . Golf has not yet begun this season on some U. S. courses but where Funnyman Wodehouse is read, play need never cease. His long irony is always "on the meat." Never out of bounds, his approaches are infallible; his quip shots all hole out. This Ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Frank Totten Heffelfinger, Minneapolis grainman, onetime Exeter (boys' school) football-baseball-track-man: "Playing golf in Del Monte, Calif., last week, I killed a wild canary on the 7th hole. The 15th hole I made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...confidently stood all his life. His toes drop right off in a basin. Some say it was the conjure wrought by one of his many women when she laid his wife's death sheet over his bed. Some say it was his curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Speaking from stout Saxon roots to Kansas Cityites, last week, M. Claudel said: "The Grand Canyon which I have just visited, is indeed a Hell of a hole, the most beautiful I've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beautiful Hole | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

What Anne Brought Home?The gentle bridegroom victorious by making a fish farm out of a mud hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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