Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johnson have gone one step beyond any of their predecessors in photographing snakes, leopards, zebras and lions in private life. It's getting to the point in Africa where no zebra can take a drink without suddenly perceiving the camera click in the bushes of the water hole. And as for elephants taking a bath?they might just as well give it up as far as any privacy is concerned. All of which is a manner of saying that the present film is uncommonly realistic. For sceptics who refuse to accept this statement on the grounds that the critic...
Mapes played the best golf for the University, handling in a card of 77. Peirson was next with a 79 while the best Technology score was turned in by Johnson, who, while playing four on his team, completed the 18 holes with an 80 Peirson had had a good deal of difficulty in defeating Johnson one up as both were even on the last hole. On the last tee Peirson sliced his drive so that his ball was all but stymied by a large tree. By a very pretty approach shot, however, he was able to reach the green...
History's Bitterest Revenge: to Pigeon-Hole Him as a Rich...
...clogging pipe-stems have become actualities, inventors and scientists can turn their attention to the making of articles once suggested in joke. Stephen Leacock's "Man in Asbestos" may yet come into being, dressed in a suit of everlasting knickerbockers, and cating concentrated food pills for nourishment. "Hole-proof Hosiery", now named with optimistic exaggeration, will some day be made so as to defy even the attacks of army boots. Safety razors will be designed which will have regard for the quality of mercy, and will leave the pound of flesh uncut. Some new kind of heel will be developed...
PONJOLA-Cynthia Stockley-Putnam ($2.00). Lady Flavia Desmond was Tired of It All. She was just about to make a hole in the Seine when she ran into Lundi Druro, a tall, bronzed personage, back from Africa on leave, whose tales of the native flora and fauna and remarks on What a Wonderful Thing True Love Was (he was then engaged to somebody else who ditched him later) made Flavia decide to dress up in masculine tweeds and take a look at this Earthly Paradise he talked about. She found the scenery marvelous, but everybody drank Scotch before breakfast...