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...that 90% of golfers misuse most golfing terms. Dormie is no exception. Often a player is heard to say, "You've got me dormie" (as many holes down as holes to play) when in fact his opponent is dormie. But he may say, "I am dormie down" (vulgarism). Origin of the word is obscure, but some authorities think it may spring from teh French dormir (to sleep, to be stagnant...
...portal opened, in strode Great Master Connaught to hold the fifth investiture of Knights of the Bath in a hundred years. It was Connaught who in 1913 revived most of the ancient ritual, for decades in abeyance. Theory of the origin of the Bath is that in medieval times a soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they...
...Cuneo Press, control of the company. Filled with violent and vociferous alarm, a minority committee of debenture-holders marched into court last week to decry the plan as a "squeeze out" which sabotaged their rights. They persuaded the Special Master to order an investigation of the protective committee's origin and motives...
...Germans now being trained by the government to edit newspapers were tongue-lashed by Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels. "I am informed that your education and abilities are far from satisfactory," he roared. "It is no excuse for you to say that, being of humble origin, your schooling was bad. Almost all the men who rule Germany today came of obscure stock. They too were not born in palaces! . . . You may imagine that I am willing to pass over the conditions among you for a couple of months, but I will...
...Darwin's Origin of Species