Word: tyres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blackamoor, dumbfounded, explained how Jones was Robert Tyre Jones Jr., National Amateur Golf Champion, how Watts was Watts Gunn, his friend and opponent in the finals, and how, since both lived in Atlanta, Mayor Sims had issued a proclamation asking all the city to help in their welcome; the city councilmen had passed them a vote of gratitude; and the citizens arranged in their honor the celebration he had just witnessed. "Is there anything else, sir?" inquired the porter when he had made this clear. "Overcome with gratitude," murmured the salesman absently, "I can only thank...
...good green-gangsters who manicured, shampooed and mud-massaged the course of the Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) for the last week's National! Amateur Golf Championship were exceptional fellows. They entertained a lively interest in the sport. They knew all about Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.-may even have known, indeed that his father, a Georgia lawyer, is associated in business with William Gunn, father of Watts Gunn, the 20-year old youth whom Jones brought North to the tournament to "get some experience in championship play...
...strokes under par; his approach work was sharpshooting, his putts were as accurate as target pistol-shots, his drive was a cannonade. He beat the onetime amateur champion 10 up and 9 to go. Next day he defeated Richard A. Jones Jr. of Manhattan, 5 and 3; Robert Tyre Jones put out George Von Elm of Los Angeles. Gunn and his friend from Atlanta would meet in the finals. Ha! drama, wrote the reporters, human interest...
...many of the gangsters could place Von Elm. Until last year his activities in the East had been infrequent and unobtrusive. But Robert Tyre Jones Jr. they remembered well indeed, the chubby Buster Brown of 17 from Atlanta, Ga., who qualified so brilliantly in the amateur championship of 1919 at Oakmont and blazed through his matches to the very final. Two former champions had sickened at that fell onslaught, tall Bob Gardner of Chicago and seasoned Walter Fownes of the home club, and only with difficulty did ponderous Dave Herron at last fix a damper on the ardent cherub...
...Arthur Machen. Among them were: utilitarian literature, big business, the novels of George Eliot and Airs. Humphry Ward, Puritanism and its offspring, Protestantism; the inky rivers of the city of Manchester, drains, dogmas and all the iron altars erected to that latter day simulacrum of the Golden Bull of Tyre-the Industrial Ham. As Dickens' behavior toward Dissent was once described as that of a man who takes up a noisome fungus, smells it, makes an inarticulate noise of disgust and throws it away, so Arthur Machen treated the toadstools which, in 1906, he did not love. "Everything...