Word: washingtonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tampa, James Barnes, Walter Hagen, John Farrell, Robert Cruikshank, Edward Loos, Gene Sarazen, Joseph Kirkwocd and many another famed professional golfer competed in the Florida Open Championship. Among them Leo Diegel, Washingtonian and Champion of Canada, drove, chipped, putted. On the first two rounds, his performance was competent: his third round, though not brilliant, brought him within one stroke of the leader- Barnes. The golfers set out on the fourth round, attended by a great gallery which often cheered the. admirable shots of Diegel as those of a player who was making a gallant and unlikely attempt at last-round...
...minutes after the start at Krum Elbow that the Washingtonian boat reached the other end of the three-mile course, two lengths in front of Wisconsin and three and a half lengths ahead of Cornell. At no time during the race was there the slightest doubt but that the crew from Washington would...
Senator Copeland of New York was once "Dr." Copeland and Chief of the New York Department of Health. Now he aspires to the Democratic Presidental nomination. An unnamed Washingtonian, not respecting his aspirations, wrote a health column such as the Senator used to contribute to Manhattan newspapers...
...correction of unintentional errors. Although it is too much to hope that a short space of five years will see a complete change in the public taste it is distinctly encouraging to find that truth and accuracy are almost as much in demand now as in the Washingtonian past...
Albert Johnson of Washington has been a newspaper man most of his life. He has been an editor in New Haven, Washington, St. Louis, Tacoma and Seattle. He is now publisher of the Daily Washingtonian of Hoquiam, Wash. It happens that he is also a Congressman and, as such, Chairman of the House Immigration Committee. It is, perhaps, because of his newspaper training that advance information was given out about the new immigration bill which he and Secretary of Labor Davis are preparing for the next Congress...