Word: wals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people who have talked themselves into print, one of the most successful is Cowboy-Funnyman Will Rogers. The technique of a gum-chewing commentator ("Wal, all I know is what I see in the newspapers"), which he developed in vaudeville and which landed him downstage in the Ziegfeld Follies, also got him a job as a daily paragrapher...
...titmice, Timothy for the cats, Tobias for the Turkeys, Louis or Louie for the long guns? And doesn't everyone who has heard of tom-tom know that it doesn't TOM at all, but wum-wum-wums? TIME is too kindly, too wise, not sufficiently Jimmy Wal-kerish, to head this TOMfoolery. Give TOM a break, along with Richard and Henry...
...Full title: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mumilak, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Nizam ud Daula Nawab Mir Sir Vsman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, Honorable Lieutenant General in the Army, Faithful Ally of the British Government...
...Open Champion, was to play 72 holes with sleek Walter Hagen, 1924 British Open Champion. Spade never digged a pit as murky, foul, treacherous as that which gapes for the spirit of a golfer who is off his form. Into that pit plunged Cyril Walker and thus did sleek Wal- ter become unofficial golf champion of the world. Hagen, at the end, was "17 and 15". Of 57 holes played, Walker won but 7, tied but 25. Said statisticians: "Never before* has a match between two great professionals of seemingly equal merit been so lopsided." In the first...
...haired boy Darby to whom the taste of piracy is sweet. At sea, they join Murray's company in two ships. One of them, the Royal James, Murray's own ship, dominated by his cold cruelty, is as disciplined as a ship of the line. The other, the Wal- rus, under Captain Flint, contains the ruffianly crew of drunken, careless, filthy, fighting buccaneers, whom Stevenson made famous. There is Long John Silver, the one-legged, still as ingratiating, still as desperate as ever. There is Pew, the crafty blindman, who sees with his ears. There is Billy Bones, the mate...