Word: putt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours late, the liner Oropesa dropped anchor in Hamilton harbor. Wearing grey flannel suits, which Edward of Wales topped with a startling broadbrimmed "wideawake" hat, the two Princes stepped ashore, posed for photographs, shook hands with Acting Governor Edward W. Evans and his staff, then boarded a tender and putt-putted to the swanky Mid-Ocean Club at Tuckerstown. The Earl of Chester celebrated the beginning of his trade tour by playing golf with Bermuda's leading tradesman, Eldon Trimingham of Trimingham Bros. (clothing store), famed yachtsman and Bermudian socialite. It was a close match. H. R. H. canceled...
...stocky, curly-haired Maurice McCarthy played the best match of the tournament-a match that went ten extra holes before McCarthy won it with a pitch that stopped a few inches from the cup. Von Elm came within one ball-revolution of sinking his 15-ft. putt for a half. McCarthy had played 49 holes when the day was over-19 with Watts Gunn in the first round, two in the play-off for the last five qualifying places besides his 28 with Von Elm. Next day Jess Sweetser beat him and Jones faced Sweetser and his first real match...
...Tommy Armour, one-eyed, Scottish-born professional of Detroit: by one hole, the Professional Golfers' Association championship, at Fresh Meadow Country Club, L. I., sinking a 12-ft. putt on the 36th hole against Gene Sarazen. ¶ Jimmy McLarnin, 140-lb. Pacific Coast Irishman: a fight at the Yankee Stadium, New York, from Al Singer, who won the world's lightweight championship two months ago (TIME, July 28) from battered Sammy Mandell; by a knockout; after 2 min. 21 sec. of the third round. McLarnin won no title because of the differences in weight...
...they were driven by a motorcycle engine. I wonder if it is not true that a great many people are unconsciously prejudiced against going up in airplanes because when they go to the flying field and hear these tinny sounding motors, they automatically associate the airplane motors with the putt-putt sound of a motorcycle...
Later President Hoover took Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh to his Rapidan camp. Other guests: Assistant Secretary of War Davison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young. Talk topic: aviation, commercial and military. Col. Lindbergh played at throwing darts with his wife, watched others putt around a Tom Thumb golf course built by Marines near the President's camp...