Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting off Scot McGovern's friends as best they could, Sir Colin Keppel & posse dragged him inch by inch the length of his long bench, dragged him into the aisle and down the aisle, dragged him to a point within the Parliament Building where they could conscientiously say, "We have removed the Honorable Member from the House...
...needed only a 38 on the last nine holes to win. Knowledge of his apparently impregnable position made him nervous. He had a six at the twelfth, a five on the fifteenth. Needing three par-fours now for a tie, he dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily...
Soon after the end of the flight, the business of making the flyers official heroes and their families great personages was in full swing. They were paraded, be-medalled, feted, photographed within an inch of their lives. (They had engaged as publicity counsel the firm of Bruno & Blythe.) Their wives were included at many of the functions, including the luncheon given by Mayor Walker, where Arthur Brisbane quoted Paul Block as saying: "It must have been hard to fly away from either of those two ladies." Also there was Col. Lindbergh ("Only one Christopher Columbus, only one Lindbergh."?Brisbane...
...through the furze of the seaside course at Portmarnock, Ireland, last week, dropping purses, strings of pearls and beads, rings, rosaries. They were following two 21-year-old English girls in the finals of the British Women's Golf Championship. One of the two, Enid Wilson, an inch over six feet tall, had won the medal. She had beaten Elsie Corlett who had put out the only American girl in the tournament in the third round. The other, a head shorter, was Wanda Morgan, who lives in Kent, likes to paint, was unknown as a golfer till a year...
...Prices listed are for entire albums which include several records. Where the price is not given it is 75¢, standard price for popular 10-inch records...