Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...felt so strongly all the living actuality of the Fascist doctrine by which the state is centered in one person who is complete master. Some idolaters call this a 'Dictatorship' and proudly we acknowledge it!" Evidently Benito was only exercising once more his taste and genius for amateur theatricals. "For the 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity' of the French Revolution," he roared, "the Fascist Revolution substituted, 'Authority, Order. Justice'!" His great speech - heralded by the Fascist press for over a month along with rumors of "Empire" - turned out to be a little more than an especially...
Fame is a thing California loves and understands. It was with joyous fanfare that the state welcomed Robert Tyre Jones Jr., world's most famed golfer, to the National Amateur Championship at Pebble Beach. It was that multiple champion's first Pacific Coast appearance. Eager thousands watched him shoot 67 in a practice round, 70 and 75 in the qualifying rounds, which tied for first place. Thus far Fame played to form. Then it flubbed miserably...
With the sudden eclipse of Jones, the galleries dwindled. Chandler Egan of Medford, Ore., designer of the Pebble Beach course, National Amateur Champion in 1904 and 1905, drew a few spectators as he eliminated two formidable contenders, the West's George Von Elm and the East's Jess Sweetser. But hardly anyone watched homely, courteous Francis Ouimet, National Champion in 1913 and 1914, beat Lawson Little. Only the stancher spirits and the prolix newspapermen witnessed the semi-finals in which Dr. Oscar F. Willing, deliberate dentist of Portland, Ore., downed courageous Oldster Egan, and Harrison ("Jimmy") Johnston kindly but firmly...
...Jimmy" Johnston has been entering the Amateur for several years, always starting well, seldom going far. In private life he is a St. Paul, Minn., broker with a big-brown-eyed wife named Betty and two children. Having gotten by Ouimet, who put him out at St. Louis in 1921, he proceeded against Dentist Willing with his square jaw set. Dr. Willing was 1 up at lunchtime. Then, aged 33, on the 33rd green, "Jimmy" Johnston won the 33rd U. S. Amateur Championship, 4 and 3. California, though it had expected a Jones final, was pleased with Champion Johnston...
Midnight, Burglar Proof, An Amateur Devil, The Exciters"). His experience with Prohibition began in 1927 when General Lincoln Clark Andrews imported him from the field of press-agentry...