Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First there were reports that early summer rains had killed off the young grouse on the Scotch, English and Welsh moors. Then there were reports that the grouse had survived the wet, were as plentiful as usual. As The Twelfth, the historic August opening of Britain's grouse season approached, the reports turned dismal again. ''Grouse disease" had thinned out the coveys. Day before The Twelfth the moors were reported soggy, dank. Consequently Scotsmen anxiously assembled at the Edinburgh and Glasgow railroad stations to note how many rich Englishmen and Americans were coming up from London...
Scarcely half the grouse moors were rented this year, and comparatively few of those were occupied on The Twelfth. King George, an excellent shot, whose favorite stand is Geallaig moors near Balmoral Castle, remained in London. But he received by express a box of the first day's kill on the royal moors...
Rich Americans on the moors The Twelfth, or ready to go there, included as usual, John Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Hungerford Mackay & wife, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Herbert Pulitzer, Grayson Mallet, Prevost Murphy...
...Paavo Nurmi: a two-mile race at Helsingfors, Finland; in 8 min., 59 3/5 sec., a world's record (Nurmi's twelfth...
...needed only a 38 on the last nine holes to win. Knowledge of his apparently impregnable position made him nervous. He had a six at the twelfth, a five on the fifteenth. Needing three par-fours now for a tie, he dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily...