Word: putters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately transferred to sea duty, he left behind at Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station 17 lighter-than-air officers who putter about the sky in seven small blimps and one metalclad ship. Still inflated but confined to its mast or hangar at Lakehurst is the aging Los Angeles, available for ground training but banned from the air by the skeptical Navy high command. (The Army has given up even observation balloons, turned to autogyros...
...local country club, he admitted frankly that he "didn't know which end of a stymie to take hold of." His 23-year-old daughter, Estelle (Phi Beta Kappa), knew less. Together they read a book on golf, bought four clubs apiece (brassie, No. 2 iron, mashie and putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they not only had all the students golf-conscious but Daughter Lawson-a caddy carrying her four clubs in his hand like sticks of kindling wood- survived two qualifying rounds of the women's Southern golf...
...many a hard-working businessman, scornful of boondoggling, the letters WPA mean We Putter Away. Last week the Works Progress Administration ceased preliminary puttering, began work on a project to delight every manufacturer and merchant in the land. Businessmen have been increasingly confused by 44 Federal and State fair-trade laws, by a jungle of anti-price-discrimination statutes. Governmental agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have wondered just how much these 20th Century laws have improved or hampered trade, how much they have raised the cost of living. In April, WPA announced that it would find out, through...
Back in Washington after a fortnight at Pinehurst-during which he dabbled about with a putter, found golf almost as amusing as his favorite game of croquet, Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week found it necessary to play his way out of three delicate diplomatic hazards. The slow-speaking Secretary timed his strokes well and executed them neatly but, as golfers have a habit of doing, he felt inclined by week's end to indulge in a dash of reasonably non-diplomatic language...
...staged a big show of sporting art in Chicago for just those elements. Director Zoeller, who had spent five years preparing for this show, was sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them around a cellophane pond on which floated a fleet of wooden decoys. At the opening, two attendants at a long bar made the ruddy guests feel quite at home...