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Floods came, winds blew and beat upon the golfers at Port-marnock, Ireland. Players were wrenched from their stances, so fierce was the gale sweeping in from the Irish Sea. The luncheon tent was blown away in large ribbons. Ernest Whitcombe, one of the best, took five shots to reach one green in the teeth of the tumult. Larry Nabholtz, U. S. professional, "picked up" after a morning round of 91. Wild Bill Melhorn, only other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Irish Open Golf | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Neptune, N. J., the Rev. Irving Meier, pastor of the Full Gospel Church, was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct because he persisted in conducting "screeching, howling and hilarity" in his tent-tabernacle after 10 p. m. Upon his promising to cease his pentecostal endeavors at a seemly hour he was discharged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Disorderly Conduct | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Woof, Woof", went a creature cloistered in a sample of a main tent. I gave Oscar the necessary ten cents and up he went to do his daily good turn to the local faksters. His crest fallen features quivered with chagrin as he rejoined the family group before the door of the side show. "It was no Indian", he cursed, "It was only his wife...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

Cries from the main tent told us to hurry for choice seats or even those splinters called bleachers. And soon we were watching cowgirls and cowboys and their cows doing such stunts as my merry Oscar had not seen before since he was in Sweden with the Marines during the battle of Jungfrau...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...Indians were going to kill Captain John Smith with the time that Pocahontas rushed in and saved him. The old chief I got it from told me that. I was five years old and so drunk I could hardly stand up the day I took it out of his tent, after he'd been killed in a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boy | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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