Word: petersburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg...
...that there is a great deal of baggage endlessly sailing the skies like the Flying Dutchman, transferred from plane to plane and city to city forever." (One Reno-to-San Francisco passenger's brief case, containing $50,000 worth of building plans, turned up days later in St. Petersburg...
...first time was during the Russian Revolution. The son of a St. Petersburg banker and financial adviser to Rasputin, Serge fled to Sweden with his family when the Bolsheviks came to power. Eventually he made his way to England, studied economics at Cambridge University, quit to apply what he had learned. In his first deal, he made $17,000. At 24 he was running Paris' Banque Franco Asiatique, dabbling in French politics, performing feats of financial legerdemain for all comers-at a fee. He was also playing the French money market. Result: in 1935 the French Government...
...crowds had come to see the Byron Nelsons, the Sam Sneads, the Ben Hogans. Of the other 130 hopefuls entered in the $10,000 St. Petersburg Open Tournament, only 20 had much chance to finish in the money. The rest had a cheerful name for themselves: the dew sweepers...
Most of the dew sweepers at St. Petersburg, as at the other tournaments in the Florida winter "grapefruit" circuit, were country-club pros-big frogs in the little puddles and big bunkers back home. They didn't look as good against pro golf's Big 20 as they did against the local businessmen. Said Gene Sarazen, watching one of them practice earnestly for the next day's dawn patrol: "He'll be back in Swizzlestick, Arkansas, next month, giving lessons...