Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down. "I'm proud," said young John Goodman, "but I'm sorry." Some people thought it was a "good thing for the game." Others thought an 18-hole match was unfair, especially when young John Goodman lost his next match, 2 and 1, to unknown 18-year-old William Lawson Little...
...Pebble Beach course, National Amateur Champion in 1904 and 1905, drew a few spectators as he eliminated two formidable contenders, the West's George Von Elm and the East's Jess Sweetser. But hardly anyone watched homely, courteous Francis Ouimet, National Champion in 1913 and 1914, beat Lawson Little. Only the stancher spirits and the prolix newspapermen witnessed the semi-finals in which Dr. Oscar F. Willing, deliberate dentist of Portland, Ore., downed courageous Oldster Egan, and Harrison ("Jimmy") Johnston kindly but firmly eliminated Francis Ouimet...
...past make no profits in the present and last week the Journal was bought by the Chicago Daily News, whose new plaza is the most beautiful spot in Chicago. Leader in the Chicago evening paper field, the News was founded in 1875, made great by the late Victor Fremont Lawson and the late Melville Elijah Stone, passing to Walter Ansel Strong after the death of Mr. Lawson...
...they differ the wonder of a common picket fence is revealed." Artist Henri's proteges included Rockwell Kent and the late great George Bellows. As he taught he learned, particularly from conversation with such friends as his colleagues in "The Eight" (Maurice Prendergast, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Ernest Lawson, William J. Glackens, George Luks, the late Arthur B. Davies), a group which spurred the militant Society of Independent Artists and encouraged U. S. painting as such. Within a few hours of Artist Henri's death, a Henri memorial association was formed at the artist colony of Santa...
...Daily News, had "sold" the idea, first to Prime Minister King, then to Mr. MacDonald. Among journalists, Edward Price Bell is a Pundit, not only a writer and interpreter but also a molder, a creator of news. He is heir to the dream of the late, great Victor Fremont Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News, who 30 years ago conceived a worldwide foreign service which was to be "the handmaiden of state craft." Men who worked abroad for Journalist Lawson had to be diplomatists as well as reporters. They were to aid in interpreting countries one to the other...