Word: putt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson golfers walked away victoriously from the eighteenth hole in yesterday's match with Boston College, but it was all due to the final putt that Sam Seagar sank on the last green...
When the going got too tough, the Secretary stole away for a game of croquet. He liked occasionally to putt around a golf green but croquet was his favorite relaxation. "[It] may seem namby-pamby but it is really a very scientific game," he wrote. He became very expert and once beat the champion "of a certain section of the United States." But in his last years at State, he had to give up the game. "My doctor required me to taper off, which probably proves that it is more strenuous than most people think...
Bing Crosby, in a sloppy orange sweater, stepped jauntily from tee to green. He was shooting good golf ("Something around 80," he guessed). On the 18th hole, his ball plopped within five feet of the pin (applause) and then he sank the putt (more applause). Bing looked reproachfully over his shoulder and husked: "What did ya expect...
Caldwell's point is that Molly never did have a chance. She was a sharecropper's daughter and early seduced, went from bed to worse until she set up in business for herself in Agricola. When she married Putt Bowser, the town's aging odd-job man, she settled down to housekeeping and running down a husband for Lily, her 16-year-old illegitimate daughter. Then Putt had to go and get himself killed. Said Molly, the day of the funeral: "Maybe it wasn't his fault, but I ought to have had the sense...
...rest of Caldwell's characters are off the same near-caricature assembly line as Molly and Lily. For the perennial Jeeter-type there is Jethro, Putt's shiftless farmhand brother. The strait-laced minister's young wife has "vitamin" binges with Molly on the sly, finally runs off with a salesman. "He [Rev. Bigbee] won't even let me undress without turning out the lights, and I have to wear long-sleeved nightgowns that drag the floor. This morning as soon as he left I took off all my clothes and ran out into the backyard...