Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment, the thrill of the possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped farther and farther behind. But, having learned to savor the futility of hope, doubtless he was not surprised when Lord Waring's White Heather slipped past his lee on the crest of a feathering wave and beat him across the line. Grimly he twisted his barnacle, fixed upon his features his professionally smile, repeated mechanically: "I will try again...
...funds such as the bonds securing bank notes, the bonds securing postal savings, etc. His signature passes daily through every one's hands, printed on nearly every piece of paper money. His predecessors in the last 25 years have been John Burke (1913-21), C. A. Thompson (1912-13), Lee McClung (1909-12), Charles H. Treat (1905-09), E. H. Roberts (1897-1905). The office has been in existence since 1775, almost 14 years before the Constitution went into effect...
...other, luffing, jibbing, stepping in and out of the seas in a staunch but hopeless attempt to sail under Hoyt's lee, was the Scotch boat Coila III, defending the Seawanhaka Cup, which was won 30 years ago by a 'British six-metre boat, never regained for the U. S. until a salute-gun boomed, a flag broke out from the staff in front of a yacht club, the Lanai crossed the line, left the sea to the toiling Coila III, the windy clanging of the gulls...
...tired golfer-or one who may in the future play golf-can catch 40 winks. It has a dance hall, a dining-room, a grill, a reception hall, a ladies' room, a croquet lawn, a smoking room, the only colored golf professional in the U. S.- Robert E. Lee. These details appeared in the press when a controversy between the officers of the club (led by George E. Bates, Grand Secretary of the Negro Elks) against a realty company, which has financed the enterprise, was settled in favor of the latter...
...less hideous and rancid discords less frequently pollute the fine free atmosphere of club porches, tonsorial parlors, moonlight bays, locker rooms and shower baths, Singer Sigmund Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical but practical explanation of the broad technique essential to impromptu cantatas-"swipes," "seventh heaven," "amen corner...