Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crosby the he could beat him with a baseball bat, shovel and a garden rake, the match ende after one hole because Montague started off with a birdie, using the rake as putter. With golf clubs, he almost neve scores above the 60s. His best score : 61, made at Palm Springs, where he lowered the course record every day for four days in a row. Two years ago Golfer Von Elm said he had played golf with Mysterious Montague for a month without seeing him score above...
...climax case which excited lawyers of the country all the way up to the U. S. Solicitor General, Senior Law Clubs concluded their two years mock court Ames competition Friday night, with the members of the "Root-Pitney" club winning the palm as crack law team of the school...
...relief of their socialite constituents the city councilmen of Palm Beach last week thumbed down a proposed town trailer camp, decreed that the presence of more than one automobile trailer on a private lot constituted a public nuisance. In another rebuff to tin-can tourists the Palm Beach councilmen limited the parking of trailers on streets or highways to one hour, prohibited cooking in them during that period...
What was a nuisance to swank Palm Beach is a boon to the rest of Florida, which this winter is outdoing itself to make northern nomads happy. Opened near Sarasota last week was the "National Winter Trailer Show" with all important manufacturers exhibiting at the 600-acre Samoset trailer town. Scheduled for the annual Florida Orange Festival at Winter Haven next week is a "Trailer Parade," with an even 1,000 mobile homes competing for fancy prizes. Estimates of the number of trailers already in Florida ran as high as 26,000, the increase over last year as high...
...degree gaped last fortnight at what appeared to be the title page of a book which any Baltimorean would pay high to read. Title: ALONG THE RIVIERA, A True and Thrilling Love Story, by Edward Cornwall. An archaic-looking woodcut showed a British sea captain relaxing under a palm tree with a Tahitian belle, while another seaman peered off a cliff through a spyglass. Heading: "George VI Looking Over His Vast Empire WITH MR. SIMPSON AT SEA And the Prime Minister Turning His Back and Howling." Publisher was billed as the Salt House Press, of No. 14 East Hamilton Street...