Word: puts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson mentor made it known yesterday that he would not announce the starting sextet until after the final practice at the Garden this afternoon. Not having practiced since last Thursday the entire squad of 21 men will be put through a rigorous drill today...
...Professional Golfers Association used to give a silver cup to the player who won their annual tournament. This year they put up a radio phonograph with a bronze plate for the winner's name. Nobody knew where the cup was. Walter Hagen had won it so often that he got careless about it and forgot it one day. When Leo Diegel beat him last year, Hagen's manager had to tell the committee where the cup was. "I don't know," he said. "It's hard enough getting him out of bed in the morning without...
...disappeared into the traps that medalists so often discover in a match play. Harry Cooper, who had been given a starting time, was ruled out because he had not played in the elimination tournament in his district. Tommy Armour, one-eyed Scot, was sick at home. Al Espinosa put out Bill Melhorn in a match that went 40 holes, then was put out himself by Watrous. In the finals Farrell kept on Diegel's heels until the ninth hole in the afternoon when he knocked the wrong ball in the hole trying to putt past a stymie...
...will have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey and remember that there are 69 drinks to the gallon. "3. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife. By the time the first gallon is gone she will have $8 to put in the bank and $2 to start business again. "Should you live 10 years and continue to buy booze from her and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have money enough to bury you decently, educate your children, buy a house and lot, marry a decent...
Louis' one passion (outside of his job) was hunting. He liked women, but loved dogs. He had mistresses in his younger days, and was twice married, purely as a matter of business. Suspicious, he had an elaborate system of spies. Relentless, he hung traitors or put them in iron cages. Personally brave, he was terribly afraid of death...