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...defeated second team lined up as follows: White, La Rue, p.; Hart, c.; Tweed, 1b.; O'Neil, 2b.; Devens, 3b.; Beckerman, s.s.; Olney, l.f.; Shine, c.f.; Smart...
...next winter, Captain Donald McMillan visits the frigid shores of Labrador he will conceivably see a few native malamutes mushing in tweed knickers, full dress vests and starched Arrow collars, and touching up their huskies with squash racquets...
...Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook, but he usually fixed things up for his clients, whether they were members of the notorious Tweed Ring or onetime (1881-85) U. S. President Chester A. Arthur. Great spawning corporations found use for the mental agility of Attorney Root. James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and E. H. Harriman came to his office. Said E. H. Harriman: "Other attorneys tell us what...
...fetch a towel from the clubhouse, complained that he could not hold his clubs. To remedy the last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might as well play without trousers, he kept his tweed jacket on. Hagen's silk shirt invited breezes. He smiled. At the seventy-first tee he lay on the ground for a brief rest, then rose, sent a perfect drive down the fairway. Mitchell sliced his iron shot. Hagen, standing blandly by, watched him make a hopeless...
...Hagen cool in silk; Mitchell hot in tweed. Which lay down...