Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain should certainly cease giving more credits to the Soviet Union!" cried choleric Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, advocate of a special tax exclusively on Soviet imports. "Russia has the greatest army in the world and the greatest factories for the production of lethal gas! If we have any money to spend, let us spend it at home. Or if we have enough at home let us spend it on the Dominions!" This speech, though approved in principle by a Congress resolution, failed to win support for the specific, anti-Soviet...
Canadian golf came of age a fortnight ago when, for the first time in history, a Dominion man carried off the U. S. amateur title. Elation in Canadian locker rooms last week was heightened another degree. For the first time since 1926 the Canadian women's title came home from the U. S. Miss Margery Kirkham of Montreal's Forest Hills club was the heroine, at Kanawaki. Quebec. By 4 & 2 she turned back the last U. S. player, Bernice Wall of Oshkosh. Wis.. in the semifinals, then went on to whip Mrs. Charles Eddis of Toronto...
...Russ. Her Captain Mueller leaned over the bridge admiring the sight of the great airship over the picturesque windjammer. Signal flags ran up the Niobe's mast: "Who Are You?'' "Where Are You From?" "Where Are You Bound?" He called a quartermaster to open the flag locker to reply just as a great black squall struck the little barkentine...
...ready for Wimbledon by losing his match to an obscure Australian in the London Championships. He beat the same Australian, Harry Hopman, in Wimbledon's second round, but he did it without vehemence, the way he won his other early matches. He slouched about the grounds, sprawled in locker-room chairs, apparently forgetful of the fact that he was the U. S. singles champion and therefore the most exciting entrant in the tournament with the possible exception of Henri Cochet, who was put out in the second round. When all the other U. S. players including Sidney B. Wood...
Even Perkins by this time was ready to stop waiting in the locker-room. He joined the crowd that was waiting at the 18th green to watch Sarazen play his 286th shot, an 8-ft. putt. It was a noisy crowd, impatient to cheer Sarazen for equaling Bobby Jones's unique feat of winning the British and U. S. Opens in the same year. The crowd swarmed over the traps, over the edge of the green, past the course marshals until there was only a tight 20-ft. circle around Sarazen and his ball. Perkins tried to look over...