Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silverton, Ore., ladies of the local country club played a strip golf tournament, one garment for each hole. Unlucky Mrs. Ralph Bilyeu left the course first, reduced to a shoe and a piece of lingerie. Mrs. J. Werle who stepped to the first tee wearing six petticoats, pantaloons and a hoop skirt, won with the loss of only three petticoats...
...Lincoln, "The Holy City" to many Nebraskans, the board of the Nebraska State Fair, in the hole for the past three years, put on horse races, announced that the betting windows "would be so concealed as not to be apparent to anyone not wanting...
...therefore worthless for anything but their sales tax. Illinois has issued round aluminum tokens about the size of a dime, is now issuing larger square tokens that are less apt to be misused in telephones, slot machines and other coin devices. In Washington the round metal pieces have a hole in them and are worth two mills each in taxes. Colorado, which has had a sales tax for the last six months, last week began to use for the first time square, aluminum tokens, with blunt corners, worth two mills...
...when she was playing a 17-year-old, freckled-faced tomboy named Patty Berg, whose father persuaded her to take up golf three years ago, hoping it would make her lose interest in playing football on a neighborhood boys' team. Four down when the match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes in succession, halved another and dropped a 15-ft. putt on the 34th green for a par 4. Now, if Philadelphia's Vare missed a tricky six-footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have...
...loan offer for 1935 cotton. -9? per Ib. Like all false prophets, Senators George, Russell and Bankhead were hopping mad. Either Franklin Roosevelt had deliberately misled them at the White House or they had deliberately misled the cotton-growing South, with a view to putting the President in a hole from which only 12? cotton would get him out. Cotton loans at or above the market generally turn out to be not loans at all but an obligation by the Government to GEORGIA'S GEORGE He was absolutely certain. buy cotton that no one else wants at the price...