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GIBSON (W.W.) Whin...
...short driver, whose amateur standing was once questioned by the U. S. G. A. on the suspicion that he was giving golf lessons to his Washington, D. C. employer. Jones missed a five-foot putt on the 8th, another at the 10th and cut his drive into a whin at the 12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal's Nose, famed bunker. Suddenly Jones found his putting touch. Needing a long putt for a half at the 17th...
...fact it threatens to become a real American art. Mr. Dooley will be forced to give up the magazines completely. "What I object to", he says, "is whin I pay tin or fifteen cents for a magazine, expectin' to spind me avenin' improvin' me mind with the latest thoughts in advertising, to find more thin a quatter of the book devoted to literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile...
...Thin, sor, there's nobody what can make beds the loike 'o me. I well remembers the time whin me little boy tommy was down with the fever, he's dead now, sor, and it's a poor woman that I am, sor, -whin I found in one 'o the beds sich a nice soft blanket, sor, that I knowed it wud make him well, sor; so I jest borrowed it fer a day or two, sor, and it cured him completely. I've always felt so grateful loike ter that blanket that I've niver been able ter part...
...confused tales of Greek mythology. On the question of suicide John has a very striking and convincing theory. "It is two toimes as bad to kill yourself," says he, "as to kill any outher mon. If you kill any outher mon, you can repint, but you can never repint whin you have killed yoursilf." John says there was once a man here at Harvard who tried to make people think that men came from monkeys. "What was his name, John?" "I have forgott'n, sorr." "Was it Darwin?" "Ah! yes, Dorwhin. Well, this man went to Californy...