Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a great deal to discuss. The Fresh Meadow Course, well-trapped, tricky but comparatively honest, has bent-grass greens that are molded in sly ridges. In addition to this, a high wind blew through the first two rounds. A big California!!, Olin Dutra, had the low score ? 69 ? the first day but everyone said that the man to watch when the wind blew was dark, grinning Jose Jurado of the Argentine, favorite professional of the Prince of Wales, who was playing in his first U. S. Open. Wiry little Jurado hits his shots with an extraordinarily...
...champion in 1928, he said: "Oh, boy, am I excited! . . . How are they taking it in New York?" Two days later, carrying the British Open Cup which he said he would defend next year, Sarazen sailed for the U. S. to play in the U. S. Open at Fresh Meadow Country Club, Flushing, L. I., his home course from...
...some degree of perfection is not a peculiar form of conceit. . . . To me it is Religion. The other people you have written to will have clearly expressed answers. . . . I wish I could see George Bernard Shaw's. He once told me that tennis should be played in a meadow, with grass a foot high, and with no balls...
...Last Armistice Day was splendidly cele brated in this town. A nearby hilly and wooded meadow was chosen to enact a sham attack on an imaginary position. Real machine guns swept No-Man's-Land with continuous fire and cunningly placed bombs exploded at the right time. The attacking forces to a man won their objective and the thousands of spectators were thrilled by their exploit until some youngsters broke from the crowd and proceeded to imitate them, while the unavailing efforts of a private in khaki to send them back produced roars of laughter from the onlookers. If more...
...whether the Bullfinches, Allstovers or Timberlakes are the people to know, the Masseys find they are all about the same, all worth knowing, if you like to chuckle. The colony gets some chuckles out of the Masseys too when Mr. Massey is elected chairman of the Rocky Meadow Club, becomes a Mussolini overnight...