Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Coolidge, two white collies, two chows, Rebecca Raccoon arrived in Washington. At the station to meet the Presidential party were Cabinet Members Mellon, Kellogg, Jardine and Sargent. After handshakes and animal pat-tings, the Coolidges and their companions got into several limousines and swept rapidly through the Capital. Rob Roy, veteran collie, disturbed the ride with bounds, plunges, whines; shedding his white hair on formal apparel, then, he pressed his cold nose against the glass, to get a first glimpse of the White House. Arriving, he bolted down the corridor, into the elevator; jumped on the seat, and gazed...
Lately this "greatest golfer the world ever saw," assisted by a news scribe who long ago made the Jones career his own, has found time to write an autobiography.* The book reads as though Rob Jones had dropped in after Sunday supper on his good neighbors, the U. S. public, and fallen to swapping reminiscences, informally, naturally, letting himself be drawn out but not without deprecations such as, "Oh, I don't know about that, now," and confessions like, "I was cocky, all right...
...golf course is built. Summer homes grow up around it. Parents take up the game, turning their offspring loose to paddle for themselves?until some of the offspring (Alexa Stirling, Perry Adair, Rob Jones) can beat the parents. Then comes the problem of developing young talent without letting it become infant-prodigious. Rob Jones's paternal grandfather refused, even when discovered in galleries, to admit to any interest in the 13-year-old club champion, the 14-year-old state champion or the 15-year-old Southern chaimpion. Not until 1923 when Jones Jr. was 21 and about...
...that Rob Jones has given up swearing (audibly) after bad shots, now that he no longer eats pie á la mode during tournaments, now that he has twice won every major title except the British amateur and established medal-play records unapproached in history, it is interesting to learn that he?...
Said Vice President Lyman Rhoades last week: "We are told that our installation is the first instance in this country where a skyscraper office building will utilize the scientifically-established health benefit of the sun's vital rays. ... If the exigencies of business rob its men and women of natural physical advantages and if science perfects means of returning the stolen goods, it seems to us to be the duty of business to admit the theft and to make amends by acceping the contributions of science. If we were to view this move solely as an investment, on which...