Word: sodden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Onwentsia's tees and greens having emerged from the angry waters, the surviving players trooped back to finish the tournament. Miriam Burns, defending champion, took dangerous Dorothy Klotz in hand and shot the sodden first nine in 37. Coming in against a north wind, Miriam was 45. This round, the lowest of the meet, was keen enough to subjugate Dorothy, 3 and 2. Edith Cummings, whose third match had been a 5-and-3 win over well-seasoned Mrs. Dave Gaut, of Memphis, took the measure of Mrs. Lee Mida, another of golf's warhorses, and became...
...mind "Viaduct View", with its Miss Twose who "was a very bleached and shapeless little person, who, somehow, reminded one of an inferior dried fig;" "Benny Dodd's Adventure", with its O. Henry climax; "It!", full of pathetic, sodden shoes; and "Spring Scandal", peppered with potentially horrifying gossip such as, "That be a pore creature, the Queen o'Spain, Oi rackon. No flesh. No substance. No curl"--are pretty near perfection in their...