Word: weren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gallery always follows Gene Sarazen. The one that got round the first tee at Miami last week as he drove off for the final round of the La Gorce Open, with $15,000 up in prizes, was bigger than usual. Sarazen was leading the field. People who weren't following him dropped back to watch Cruickshank, a stroke behind. Johnny Farrell started late. Few spectators bothered...
...today. The Kaiser was interested; so was the Crown Prince. The Hofmarshall brought her an invitation to appear at the Palace one night. She must wear black or lavender and gloves, for the court was in mourning. But Die Farrar never wore black, or lavender?they weren't becoming?and she never wore gloves when she sang. She would wear white or she would not go. The Hofmarshall trembled. He would see what could be done?and Farrar wore white...
...nervous and choppy--the sentences too persistently short and periodic, but it is a sound story, and a vivid one. And Mr. Barnett gives us some extremely readable, and sometimes witty, theatre-notes. Both of these contributors write as if they did it with pleasure, and as if they weren't afraid of being "literary". Of the other contributors, not quite so much can be said. They play safe, they do not aim so high, and they fail, in consequence, to be very interesting. Life--one keeps thinking as one reads them--surely must mean more to them than this...
...killed when their plane, struggling through ugly weather, crashed at Long Valley, N. J., a few hours after the start. Second place went to E. E. Ballough, onetime Royal Flying Corps (British) pilot, and Charles Dickenson, 69, "Santa Claus of the Air Mail." Said Mr. Dickenson, alighting; "Well, there weren't any mosquitoes up there." Flyer Holman's flying time from Long Island to Spokane was 16 hours...
...rest of the line did not nearly measure up to that of Columbia, whom the invaders had played the week before, and that the University line played more like "a bunch of school kids" than any thing else. "Pratt and Turner," as one of the brawny Vermonters remarked, "weren't nearly what they were cracked up to be. Pratt looked pretty good but he played too high on the defense...