Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MORRIS SUSSMAN
School book histories of the American Revolution lay great stress upon such striking items as the sparks struck out by Paul Revere's horse or the Bunker Hill order about not firing until the whites of the enemy's eyes were visible. Financial affairs, being less emotional, are less noticed...
Morris. Robert Morris (1734-1806) was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and a member of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1778, during which period he virtually controlled the financial operations which supplied money for Washington's army. From 1781 to 1784 he was superintendent of...
Hence the unusual crowds last week at St. Andrews, cradle of golf. They banked the fairways with solid walls of humanity, 20,000 strong. An obscure Frenchman named Rene Golias led half the qualifying play with a 71, and Cyril Tolley, the ponderous English amateur, led the whole flight with...
That evening on the streets of St. Andrews, newsboys sold "Bawby's" picture framed beside that of Tom Morris Jr. One dismayed Scotsman growled, "Ye're nae a gowfer at a'-ye're juist a machine." Another said: ". . . the gr-reatest gowfer in the wur-rld." Carried on Scottish shoulders...