Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boats, and neither Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...
...Opal S. Hill, 45, of Kansas City: the tournament for the Missouri women's golf championship, for the third year in a row; during which she scored a 66 (a hole-in-one, two eagles, six birdies, nine pars), lowest score for 18 holes ever recorded by a woman; on the Indian Hills course, Kansas City...
...Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern in Winona, Minn. Frankly out to build up a novelty band rather than one which would be noted for its music, Freddie signed up two cards like himself for the front row- Stanley Fritts, who could play the trombone and drums and specialized in getting tunes out of a jug and a washboard, and Nels Laakso. who triple-tongued and hit easy high C's on the cornet, but also did not disdain making noise simply by sucking the mouthpiece...
Sitting in the back row, Senator Guffey listened with careful unconcern to the Wheeler vituperation, but when Wyoming's O'Mahoney began to speak his face turned gradually bright red with rage. Said Senator O'Mahoney...
...forehand style, 6-2. Then Helen Jacobs got her famous chop working, sent her opponent an endless procession of floating teasers, worried the second set away from her, 6-4, ran out the third, 6-2, for the match and the seventh U. S. Wightman Cup victory in a row...