Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sobriety's rise had one interruption. Lloyd posed for a publicity gag shot lighting a cigarette from the lighted fuse of a small bomb. Someone had made a mistake: the bomb was no fake. It exploded, blowing a hole in the ceiling and taking away part of Lloyd's face and the thumb and index finger of his right hand. Only determination pulled him through the accident and the subsequent surgery. But back into the movie business he went. The intent, slightly bewildered, obviously virtuous face of Harold Lloyd began popping out at movie audiences in thousands...
Those who do not care for blue blood mixed with ordinary red remember dourly how the King's golf led him to his second wife, the commoner Mary Liliane Baels. She used to wait for Leopold at the 18th hole at Le Zoute on the North Sea, a tony resort, but not too tony for nouveaux riÇhes. Like her royal husband, she is a topnotch golfer, plays the Onex course under 80, has twice held the Club de Genève women's championship. Though she is merely the daughter of a newly rich fish merchant...
What he would have liked best was a game of golf. Neither the King nor Mary Liliane has played the fine 18-hole course at Onex in recent weeks. "Undoubtedly," says the regretful club secretary, "the political situation in Belgium keeps them away...
American with big feet and a hole in his sock squatting on the floor and putting boyish questions to the tiny, tired Mahatma...
...Menace For the first time in three years the U.S. Treasury had to get out the red ink. It was a lusty $1,811,440,047.68 in the hole for fiscal 1949. The Government had spent $40,057,107,857.79-a peacetime record-while taking in only $38,245,667,810.11. The deficit was more than three times as much as Harry Truman forecast in his January budget message...