Word: vardon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liked tennis and baseball as well as golf until 1913, when he saw Harry Vardon and Ted Ray play...
Golf spread and changed after 1875. Champions rose and fell. Harry Vardon won the British Open six times; J. H. Taylor and James Braid, five times each. But they were grown men before they became golf masters, and the few youngsters that flashed into prominence from time to time winked out briefly." Not until 1926, when he won the British Open with a 291 that tied J. H. Taylor's record of 1909, did another young man come along who really played them "Sure and Far." Last year Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, with his 68 at Sunningdale (while...
...background and general atmosphere is again London. The main jumble of the plot starts before the war in Vardon's house at Liverpool. We are introduced to his ten year old daughter Venetia, to Peter Serle, a young man, but already a member of Parliament, and to a uselessly rich Jew. Then we jump to London during the war. Venetia has just come home from school, and Serle, always close to her, is her devoted friend. At a houseparty she meets Saville, a young author, and dislikes him intensely. Six years later, Ysabel, American musical comedy star, enters the book...
...earlier work, particularly "Piracy." Many of the characters are already familiar. Venetia has the flavor of Tris March in the "Green Hat" or Shelmerdine in "The London Venture"; in Saville there is Pelham Marlay, and in the likeable Peter Serle a touch of Lord George Tarlyon. Venetia Vardon is the typical lovely creature of Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such...
Young Men In Love is another tale of those extravagantly "sporting" English highbreds whose fortunes are rivaled in calibre only by their misfortunes. .(The main characters are six-three of the pre-War generation: "Serle, the politician; Townleigh, the Newspaner Magnate; Vardon, the Financier. Let us call them, merely to be dramatic 'and to please the public, the three horsemen of the Apocalypse...