Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thin Legs and Fat Legs trudged the golf hills. Sharp-faced Thin Legs was in his thirties; rubicund Fat Legs in his twenties. Thin Legs the wiry stylist, Fat Legs one of the most compact and well-oiled golfing units in the world. Where they walked, the sun had tarried long and close, until the hills steamed. They had walked, for miles, all others dropping. Thin Legs of Scotland, used to braw winds; Fat Legs of Georgia, fond of sweltering...
...sleek Walter Hagen, grinning Gene Sarazen, slangy Leo Diegel, trim Johnny Farrell, husky Willie Mehlhorn, tired, chagrined, heartsick Cyril Walker, the deposed champion, to whom the title had brought little joy in the year he had held it. Now they were playing an extra 18 holes to decide it-Thin Legs Willie Macfarlane, Oak Ridge professional (Tuckahoe, N. Y.), and Fat Legs Robert T. Jones Jr., Atlanta amateur. It was, extra nervous strain and labor such as there was in 1923 between Jones (who won) and wee Bobby Cruickshank of Shackamaxon. Only more...
...situation unprecedented in U. S. open championships was resolved by officials, who ruled that another sweltering 18 holes must be played. Out they trudged, after cooling drinks and luncheon. People said: "Thin Legs cannot stand it. He will sweat and sicken. Here will count the beef of Fat Legs...
...seemed. To the turn, it was Jones 35, Macfarlane 39. Then the play of Thin Legs became mechanical. "Click" at the 10th, and he had a two. "Click" at the 13th, another two. "Click" at the 15th, where Jones took six, and all was as it had been in the beginning...
...selling and no buying will end by doing no selling at all, because his buyers will be, like the poor oysters of the Walrus and the Carpenter, all gone. The seller, like the Carpenter, will one day make a beautiful speech and wake up to find himself speaking to thin air, because 'oysters there were none...