Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fairway, just below the green. Smart golfer', use an iron from the tee for a long pitch to the green rather than take a chance on driving into the brook. When Jones and Perkins went out to play their match, Perkins took an iron out, Jones took a wooden club−and a six for the hole to Perkins' four. Perkins was one up until the fourth; then Jones evened the match. At the end of the morning round, Jones was 6 up; at the end of the match, on the ninth green that afternoon...
...French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump for his right leg shot off during the War. And again he urged a sea-level canal-alongside the present-Canal, one to cost a billion dollars (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The U. S. War Department has his recommendations on file. U. S. businessmen occasionally wondered if the old engineer...
...Pigeon Hill in Rockport, Mass., there stands a house. In the house-very much in the house-are 60,000 newspapers. In fact, they are the house (except for a wooden framework). The walls are made out of newsprint, 215 sheets in thickness, waterproofed by varnish. Begun seven years ago, this four-room house was completed last week by Ellis F. Stenman & wife & daughter...
...will be difficult to replace Boss Brennan of Illinois. An Irishman, plump and nimble-witted, a poker player and duck hunter, a successful and honest businessman, a philanthropist who gave away several hundred wooden legs*-he was sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923 when he put honest William Emmett Dever into Chicago's mayorship. In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"-and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith...
...Zalud, headwaiter at "Helen Morgan's Summer Home," who served them a pint of rye whiskey, some ginger ale, a quart of champagne and a cover charge, all for $55.75. The rye was served in ginger ale bottles. Headwaiter Zalud stirred the champagne in the glasses with a wooden stick and said: "This is to get the gas out of your champagne...