Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitation tournament. Among them there always moves, subdued, almost morose, a Foregone Conclusion. Last week the Conclusion won the qualifying round from the babblers with a 78. Up stepped lank Dorothy Klotz of Chicago; the Conclusion settled upon her 4 and 3. Up stepped Helen Payson of Portland, Me., a nervy novice; the Conclusion finally rested at the 18th green, 1 up. Along came pouring rain and sure-putting Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson, Kan. The Conclusion wavered before those pitiless putts that streaked for the hole over yards of squashy turf. Near the tenth tee grew a four...
...Marchioness of Salisbury, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Garvin (he is Editor of The Observer, London Sunday newspaper), the Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Winston Churchill, Prince and Princess Obolensky, the Colonial Secretary and Mrs. Amery, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Sir Edward and Lady Grigg, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty with Lady Beatty, Sir James Barrie, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat," daughter of the Duke of Connaught) and, popular bachelor that he is, the 77-year-old Lord Balfour...
Before a meeting of the American Veterinary Association at Portland, Ore., stood a dog. Angered by the faces that festooned the air about him, the dog tried to bark, failed, tried again- and again only the dismal spectre of a bark issued from his inflamed throat. He laid his head down on his paws. Two sad-eyed goats stood nearby. For these goats had lost their happy bleats; they would converse no more. A veterinary surgeon, one Dr. F. R. Whipple, explained to the faces how simple it had been to remove the bark, the two bleats -as simple...
...induced to talk, and there were a good many. For example, when the correspondent was there a corner of Mr. Ford's laboratory had been canvased off, he had imported a dancing master, Benjamin B. Lovett, from Massachusetts, and was having him teach classes old fashioned reels, the Portland Fancy, Money Musk, the Fisher's Hornpipe, Pop Goes the Weasel, waltzes, polkas, the ripple, quadrilles, barn dances. Mr. Ford does not like modern dances, thinks the old ones will come back, is preparing a book to show why. He has also written a pamphlet against cigaret smoking and a discourse...
...obscure New Englander named Symmes. Two years later he was orphaned, was adopted by his uncle, Rev. E. W. Clark, changed his name, grew up as Francis E. Clark. Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary having graduated him, the youthful parson accepted a call to a tiny church in Portland, Me., and started a diary. Presently he wrote...