Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...
...years, Mr. Foy is returning to the vaudeville stage for a farewell tour. The Fallen Star is the vehicle that takes him through the Keith-Albee theatres. This one-act sketch by Tom Barry tells of the plight of a once idolized actor who, in old age, is reduced to the position of doorman. Enthusiastic, Mr. Foy's friends urge him to revive Rip Van Winkle, one of the plays in which Joseph Jefferson toured the country...
Booth's Old Tom...
...whole flight with 144. But the main galleries followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting his second shot on the edge of the huge plateau green. Peering off at the cup about 40 yards away, he said: "This is the longest putt...
That evening on the streets of St. Andrews, newsboys sold "Bawby's" picture framed beside that of Tom Morris Jr. One dismayed Scotsman growled, "Ye're nae a gowfer at a'-ye're juist a machine." Another said: ". . . the gr-reatest gowfer in the wur-rld." Carried on Scottish shoulders to his hotel (beside the 18th fairway), Gowfer Jones hastily sought privacy. The terrific strain had ended in an attack of nausea. When it had passed he said: "I'm too happy to talk. To be a champion at St. Andrews is quite too much...