Word: surly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong sea winds as they played off the annual invitation tournament of the National Links of America. Curious galleries followed the play of England's Walker Cup team, five members of which were in evidence. As no U. S. players of championship calibre had entered, it was not sur prising that four of the Britons filled the semi-final match play-brackets...
...coffee, and food-tins, trench cups, paper wagon-curtains, wire cutters, sack fillers, forks and spoons, burlap halters, holsters, mess kits, fur-covered knapsacks, canvas knapsacks, saber knots, trench lanterns, flamethrower nozzles, ornaments, sweat pads, tent pins, tent poles, a paper rein, ropes, saddles, saws, shovels, spurs, straps, stirrups, sur-cingles, paper tape, torches, traces, a paper whip, wagons, carts, other vehicles, empty shells...
...world was being reordered by the arbiters of destiny. But then the Democratic Party, the party of participation, was in power here. Now the Republican Party, the party of isolation, is in power, and accordingly one would expect matters to be very different, at least on the sur face. This is, indeed, the case...
...less than a month after the fall of President Millerand (TIME, June 23) ? a less tearful episode than a presidential accident ? there was scattered sur les grands boulevards the "Last Will and Testament of Alexandre Millerand." The enemies and friends of the ex-President could be distinguished at any café where the document was being read. The faces of the former were wreathed in fat grins of delight; while about the mouths of the latter played but furtive smiles...
...little excursion boats used to go puffing up and down the Hudson, back in the '60s, the hawkers there on used to sell descriptive pamphlets containing the item that on the river bank at Dobbs Ferry stands "the ele gant and commodious residence of Charles O. Gaar? the mansion sur rounded by 14 acres of beautifully decorated grounds and containing four bathrooms." As a result, during one battling week at boarding school, Gaar's 16-year -old son "Blacky" was "elegant" and " commodious," and a boy from Hartford made "a ribald sketch of him looped through four bathtubs." He fought...