Word: sweater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm belief." When the boxers entered the ring they were all smiles. Carp smiled his customary gracious smile; and Gibbons smiled his good-natured smile. At the end of the bout Gibbons was still smiling his good-natured smile. Carp however, was not smiling. Gibbons wore a dark heavy sweater under a dark brown dressing-gown. Carp was clad in a light gray robe with black fringes. As the two fighters shook hands, Carp was heard to exclaim in English : "Good luck to you !" The Fight. Carpentier, though managing to remain vertical until the end, was converted into a pulp...
...without a compass and how to crack rocks which should prove valuable if I ever get lost in the Arctic Ocean or go to jail. A Scout Club could go further and teach men semaphore so that they could understand what the little man in the bright red sweater does during football games...
Lord Renfrew (a title often used by his grandfather, King Edward VII) stayed at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec for one day. In the afternoon he played golf in his TutankhAmen pullover sweater with the Hon. Martin Burrell and Sir Godfrey Thomas. In the evening he determined to "take it easy" but the strain of Yes, We Have No Bananas was too much for him. He marched to the ballroom and had fun with the flappers. Next day he left for his ranch...
Lord Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook...
...Inwood were: Jock Hutchison, who led the field for 36 holes with 142 strokes, singing as he swung and making up limericks about his friends; John Black, golfing grandfather, who (paired with Hutchison), made funny faces and a bad score. Gene Sarazen, 1922, open champion, who wore a varicolored sweater and blew up; Walter Hagen, who pleaded high blood-pressure as the cause for his bad putting...