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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Women's National played without her last week at Broadstone was little more than a series of illustrations of how well or badly England's golfstresses had mastered their copybook. Mrs. Herbert Guedalla, who as Edith Leitch sometimes used to give Miss Wethered a close match, seemed formidable until a red-cheeked girl named Diana Fishwick put her out in the semifinal. In the final Miss Fishwick played Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath whose game, like her name, moved with the jolly confident rhythm of a country jingle. Inexperienced. Miss Fishwick's efforts to surpass...
...Brooklyn, Herman Hintz, 63, school janitor, struck a match to light a cigar, ignited his celluloid collar, burned to death...
Accommodating 255 scribes and the attendant telegraphers, charters, spotters, announcers, photographers, and radio broadcasters, the new press box presents an example of sales psychology much to the benefit of the University. Those who have scribbled over wet and trickling sheets by light a borrowed match or flickering kerosone torch while the chill gloom of a rare Scotch mist engulfed the receding shadows of the stands have much to be thankful for in the recently completed press...
...questioned concerning her opinion on the innovation to be tried in the Savoy Theatre of London, where all the seats are to be covered in colors to match the frocks of women patrons, and replied...
...Well, since it's dark almost all the time you are in a theatre. I don't see that it makes a great deal of difference whether the seats match the gowns or not. And the intermissions aren't long. Besides, who stays in theatre seats during intermissions...