Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure enough, the finalists were Billows and Ward. For his 92 holes of match play that far, Billows was nine under par. Ward had-played 103 holes, was 12 under. In the semifinal, Ward had shot three birdies and an eagle right in a row. Against this, Chicago's Art Doering got three pars and a birdie, could not win a hole...
...final, Ward took the first nine one up, was four up at the end of the first 18. Billows had him even only once, on the eighth. In the afternoon round, Ward blazed through the first nine to become seven up. On the 13th, with five holes to play, he was still seven up and national champion. Ward hits super-lengthy drives, on-in-two brassies, crisp irons, but the answer to last week's feat lay in his putter. In the 66 holes he had to play in the last two rounds, he one-putted 29 greens, three...
Dominic Mussolini, 57, unemployed steel worker, second cousin of the Italian dictator, with whom he used to play as a child, became a U. S. citizen in Warren, Ohio. Anton Lang Jr., professor of German at Georgetown University, son of the late Cristus of the Oberammergau Passion Play, filed a petition for U. S. citizenship in Washington...
...same day Mark, having located the town by the postmark on his mother's frightened note, goes to interview the Commissioner of Secret Police. The Commissioner, soft, dreamy, epicene, watches Mark's pleading as if it were a boring play, tells him to come back Wednesday for information about his mother. Mark does not know that Emmy is to be executed Wednesday morning. But then Mark meets the Countess and his real excitement begins...
When Odon von Horvath was killed in Paris last year-a falling chestnut tree struck him as he sauntered along the Champs Elysees-he had written a prize play, two short novels, The Age of the Fish and A Child of Our Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...