Word: niblick
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Western Amateur. A golfing sphere came to rest between the twin trunks of a tree about 60 feet from the ninth green. Frank Dolp, of Portland, Ore., turned his back to the pin, played a niblick shot between his legs, saw his ball stop 14 feet from the cup. He holed out in two, while Harrison R. ("Jimmie") Johnston, winner of the qualifying medal with a brilliant 141 and favorite to capture the Western Amateur title at St. Paul, missed a two-foot putt. On the 18th green Johnston's putter again faltered. He missed a six-footer...
...education, being what it seemed, was ater all, worth the sacrifice. And each had engraved on his coat of arms "Felices Ter Et Amplius", which of course has much more to do with conjugal bliss than the spirit of learning but "policemen are policemen", as the Countess of Niblick once said in all truth and consequences...
...woman. In harmonious families a compromise is arranged. He will go with her to the London Museum, the Tower, Simpson's Restaurant and the Cheshire Cheese on the first three days of their week there. She will then traipse around Sunningdale, Walton Heath, Hoylake and Ranelagh, humbly admiring his niblick shots and vocabulary. That divides the misery, and on Sunday they will both be seasick crossing the Channel to drink Parisian champagne and reiterate, "Combien?" He would really have liked to play up in Scotland. She pined to see Italy and ride in a gondola. But they are an understanding...
...twelfth green. A ball glistened 15 feet from the pin. It was Gunn's. Another huddled in the sand of a nearby pit. It was Jones'. Both had played their third shots. The champion was one down. He grasped a niblick and walked into...
James Rennie (clerk), Joseph Kilgour (employer) and Marion Coakley play the trio of niblick addicts. None of them swings very well, but they are all attractive, particularly Miss Coakley, and all amusing, particularly Mr. Kilgour...