Word: whack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny part about the incident is that I own and operate the Main Line Golf Driving Range at Ardmore and have been dodging golf balls for 10 years without getting hit. then I take an afternoon off to see the finish of the U. S. Open Championship and, "whack!", Craig Wood's brassie shot on the 18th lands me in the Bryn Mawr Hospital where I have been ever since...
...Whack Huno take your partner, Well the floor your trotters shake, Isn't it the truth I tell you, Lots of fun at Finnigan's Wake...
Only this one game with Brown separates the Crimson eleven from a final whack at the New England Soccer League Trophy when it meets Yale...
...ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
...Chicago Cubs, one of the greatest catchers of all time, sat in the dugout at St. Louis' Sportsman's Park last week with two fingers wrapped in gauze. Nervously he watched his teammates, beaten by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game of a doubleheader, whack out 17 hits for a 10-to-3 victory and thereby clinch the National League pennant on the next to the last day of the season. In that split second between the final put-out and the first whoops of his teammates, grinning Gabby Hartnett might well have reviewed the storybook...