Word: slamming
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...some folks kick, say he didn't cut his pay; Remember, he's not fishing, he's working every day; He gave the Republicans a mighty slam; He didn't take twelve years to start the Coal Creek Dam. He sent word to foreign countries, both near and far Just what to expect if they started to war ; He put the mills to working under the N. R. A. Which means shorter hours, and much more pay. He's made his stand, and you know he's tried; He's made many friends...
...Johnny Goodman was not hopeless. Bobby Jones, too, had been eliminated before the semi-finals in the 1926 British Amateur which his Walker Cup teammate Jess Sweetser finally won. In fact, Bobby Jones failed three times before finally winning it in 1930, the year he made his famed "Grand Slam" (British Amateur, British Open, U. S. Amateur, U. S. Open). Goodman could still try for the British Open next month to prove that he is currently the U. S. golfing king of swing...
...file. Credit for blending this grounded mental conflict with the melodrama of wings in the air, screaming struts and whining motors goes to Director Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous). Not the least of his accomplishments was to exact performances that verge on reality from pert, actressy Myrna Loy and loud, slam-bang Clark Gable. From amenable, sandy Spencer Tracy, currently cinema's No. 1 actors' actor, Director Fleming got what he wanted without coaxing...
That Harry Cooper is still No. 1 golfer in the U. S. was conclusively demonstrated during this winter's competition (the first quarter of the 1938 race). Although slam-bang Sam Snead posted the season's lowest score for a single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop...
...book" (in bridge, six tricks) becomes eight in super-bridge. In the bidding, "royals" rank between spades and no trumps. Club and diamond tricks above book count 20 points, heart and spade tricks 25, royals 30, no trumps 40. Game level is raised from 100 to 120 points. Three slams are possible: little slam, or six tricks over book; grand slam, seven over book; and super-slam, all 16 tricks...