Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just two votes kept James Ramsay MacDonald from motoring over to Buckingham Palace to offer his resignation to King George last week. By a curious paradox the result of his narrow escape left him more firmly in power than he had been for a month. Several Liberals, darkly muttering "dirty practice" and "not cricket," announced their intention of voting regularly with the Laborites, at least for the immediate future...
Interlachen is not a particularly long course (6,672 yd.) but it is perilously trapped. The narrow fairways put a tremendous premium on straight driving. The thick-matted rough seldom fails to cost a player a stroke whenever he strays into it. The greens of Stolon Bent are smooth but tricky to putt...
...Ascot described as follows for readers who include most of the peerage what seemed to him to be the actual mode this year: "A tight-fitting bodice of transparent muslin with a skirt which may be made in one of two ways: either it is a mass of narrow frills from waist to hem or is gathered at the waist and flows outward, measuring goodness knows how many yards in circumference around the feet...
Niggers with narrow heels & the blue on their
Last week on narrow Lake Windermere, England, he took out his new boat Miss England II, an improvement on Miss England in which he beat Garfield A. Wood in Miami last year. Miss England II was de-signed by F. Cooper and built by Saunders Roe, Ltd., of Cowes. She had two Rolls-Royce engines of 2,000 h. p. each, made of a new aluminum alloy called hiduminium. "Well, now for it," said Segrave. "She's chewed up three propellers. I'm trying a bronze...