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...Douglaston, L. I., at the 155-yd. 15th hole of North Hills Golf Club, C. X. Bieth smacked a mashie shot, watched his ball plop into the cup for a hole-in-one. Leaving the green C. X. Bieth heard a shout. J. H. Kracke, playing in the foursome behind, had smacked a No. 3 iron shot, also holed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 29, 1933 | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...some big, flat rocks. Finally, out of the water clambered a single big bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered to the edge of the rock, plunked into the water with a permanent plop. The three huntsmen grappled for him, but grappled in vain. Sadly they set sail for Manhasset to wait another year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sealers Three | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Linton Perry's most awesome trick is to pop both eyes at once. Then he looks like a chubby lobster ready to go plop into a pot of boiling water. He accomplishes the feat by squnching up the muscles around his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eye Popper | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...grace; it lacks the thin, almost horrible insanity of the Marx Brothers and it is seldom frankly pathetic, like Chaplin's. He is a culprit from a comic strip and no one would be surprised if, when something hit him on the head, it gave the sound of "plop" or "zowie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Prince's mind that he might get a hole-in-one. Nevertheless, after a swing a little smoother and a click a little firmer than usual, the ball soared straight to the apron of the green, rolled between two hummocks true to the pin and, with a little plop inaudible from the tee, went in. If the Prince was surprised, he was also justly proud. It was his second hole-in-one this season. The other went in on the Sao Vicente course in Brazil during his Empire Trade Tour. The Prince plays an 85-10-90 game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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