Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editors of Annual Golf Review believe 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...
...might lose his job. In August he snapped his team out of a losing streak by forbidding them to play poker. For the past three weeks, he has been superstitiously driving a nail into the heel of his shoe before each game. A capable baritone, banjoist and bagatelle player, nephew of Director George P. Vierheller of the St Louis Zoo, Manager Grimm has worried himself from 195 to 175 lb. since April. Last week, his worries partly over he made the bold announcement which is invariably demanded of the manager of a pennant-winning ball team: "We'll start...
...forth to the mild alarm of townsmen, who feared the pilot was lost. Much greater would have been their alarm if they had known that inside the lurching plane its pilot and his one small assistant were desperately fending off the attack of a bull-strong U. S. baseball player who had suddenly become a growling, biting sadist...
Dick Walker, former Middlesex player, who stands 6 feet, 2 inches and weighs 188 may hold down one of the regular tackle berths. Likely guesses also include Charley Houghton, up from Morristown, and Whitney Wright from Nobles...
...account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped in a dry shaft between miles of water and rock. In a party that included a 15-year-old boy, a religious fanatic called Jesus Wept, a football player and drunkard, the men waited for death, the fanatic shouting verses from Revelations and the football player keeping track of the days so he would know if he had missed his chance to play in his team's big game...