Word: maverick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maury Maverick, all praise for a TIME-worthy report. His bookplate, here reproduced, has been forwarded to Collector FitzPatrick, Director of the Sunday Times, Sydney, Australia.?ED. Tinker's Version Sirs: The controversy on the famous Merkle play in your columns has been of interest to me. While reading Evers' letter last Sunday morning I glanced out my window and saw Joe Tinker chasing a golf ball up the fairway. Joe stopped on my call and I plied him for his version of the affair. Joe says he DID NOT hold McGinity's arms. His story is that...
Will Rogers, five weeks out of hospital after an appendix removal, had to be "doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough...
...when the U. S. G. A. and the St. Andrews Club of Scotland standardized the so-called 1.62-1.62 'ball, there was a good deal of agitation among amateurs as to just how important this standardization was. Questions of whether. a score of 119 played with a "maverick" ball beat a 125 played with a standard ball were raised and discussed-ofttimes heatedly...
Churches: Eliot Congregational, Eric Sandquist '25; Epworth, P. B. Allen '23, A. N. Beals '25, E. D. Hutchinson '22, L. M. Kole '25, D. O. Mitchell E.S., Henry Warner '25; Maverick, A. W. Beals '25, C. W. Phelps '22, Dell Stevens '24; Roxbury Presbyterian, C. D. Lowry Jr. 2G.; St. James, W. M. Curtis Jr. '24; St. Paul's Cathedral, H. S. Gray 1G.; St. Stephens, W. M. Austin '25, F. P. Dunne Jr. '25; North Cambridge Community, R. P. Alexander 2L.; Malden Baptist, G. E. Barker '25; Mr. Vernon Congregational, G. T. Barker...
...these annual shows come 70,000 people, cowboys and Indians from the surrounding counties and states, and here are celebrated the immemorial sports of the West--horse racing, steer roping, Maverick races, broncho busting, and many others that require skill and strength. The stage coach race, established as Mr. Furlong said, before the "Safety First" idea, is another exciting and neck-breaking event...