Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen-year-old Robert Tyre Jones Jr. stood on the first tee of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club golf course, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around, the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones, Atlanta's Boy Wonder, was the youngest golfer ever to compete in the National Amateur...
...years ago, and last week 14-year-old Robert Tyre Jones III stood on the first tee of Chattanooga's Golf and Country Club, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones III, only son of the Boy Wonder who went on to become the world's greatest golfer, was making his debut in tournament golf...
...earlier defeat when the Yardlings went the mile and three-quarters last Saturday against M. I. T. The Techmen won handily, leaving Harvard second place. A lot of the gloom conjured up by the two losses was dispelled when comparison of the times revealed that Tech's Freshman wonder-crew had beaten the time of its own Varsity, and was "just plain good," as the Yardlings...
...ended with a roar: "Friend and foe alike denounced the way he was taken away!" It was a painful show. The backwoods followers of the Kingfish who still loved him could find no echo of their feeling in what was said. The people who still hated him could only wonder how the statue of such a cheap-Jack could be given Capitol-room. The journalists who remembered him found it strange that the outrageous Huey could produce such a dull afternoon...
...Wanderer (an undressed Biblical spectacle) : "... patronized by the sex-suburbanite, the visitor from the provinces of decorum to the carnal capital. There he may, maybe not, with arctic overshoes and furled umbrella look up open-mouthed at the tall buildings of sex, and wonder, without being soiled...