Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-seven years ago, the cathedral town of St. Andrews, Scotland, went daft over a youth of 19 whose serious face was just beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...
...main galleries followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting his second shot on the edge of the huge plateau green. Peering off at the cup about 40 yards away, he said: "This is the longest putt I ever had to make." He sank...
...Dimond dropped out within sight of the goal. Mrs. Schoemmel, who with Charles Toth of Boston unfortunately steered six miles out of the course, left the water after covering 26 miles in 18% hours. Forty-one contestants ended in the hospital ship. None, however, were said to be in serious condition-just cramps and cold pains. Near the end only two men were left, Ericson and Keating. Ericson, after 29 hours in the freezing water, was taken out three miles from the goal. Only Edward Keating finished. He clambered onto the Fort William Henry pier, after...
...Only two engines failed, one of which was ten years old. ¶There were 16 Wright Whirlwind engines, on 12 ships. Of these, only two developed serious trouble in the 65,744 engine-miles flown...
...important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates her in literature only with stories concerning one Slippy McGee...