Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chip shot and sank his first putt. Jurado was cautious again. He played his second short of the brook, chipped to the green and almost smiled when he saw the ball roll to within three yards of the hole and stop. Any good professional would have been able to sink the putt eight times out of ten. Jurado leaned over the ball and tapped it with his putter. It rolled slowly across the green, wavered and stopped not quite up and to one side...
...notice that all of us who have wives are taking them along, too. The party is sure to be dignified and the ladies may lend some grace to an otherwise motley assemblage. All classes, kinds and politics are represented here, but we're going to try to sink our political differences over there...
...earthquake-fire of 1906. David Belasco's theatrical record is less hazy. In 1882 he went from California to New York with enough stage experience to obtain work as lighting expert and stage manager for the old Madison Square Theatre. He claimed to have been the first to sink footlights into the stage. Later he began writing and producing plays with Daniel Frohman. In 1889. Caroline Dudley Carter was sensationally divorced by her husband Leslie of the Little Liver Pills family. Wise theatrical heads shook dubiously a year later when Producer Belasco had the temerity to star Mrs. Leslie...
...approach this standard of imperfection. We can't attempt to be Casanovas without certain detection. And once let the folk of the watering-places get wind of our being neither more nor less than pretty average fellows whose urges are no more picaresque than the norm, we sink in the eyes of the world...
...knows Einstein is a Zionist, but perhaps not so many realize he is a militant pacifist. Of Fire-eater Hitler he takes a long and contemptuous view: "Hitler is living-or shall I say sitting?-on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, Hitler will sink into oblivion. He dramatizes impossible extremes in an amateurish manner...