Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...that Biographer Fuess has done, it is not as a statesman but as the orator of the Plymouth oration, the Bunker Hill address, the reply to Hayne, that the U. S. remembers Daniel Webster. Some Websterisms...
...notes, divides the "debutante sons" into four groups, the "A's", "B's", "C's", and "And theZ." Although a few indiscriminate residents of cities far removed from the Hub are thrown in, without any particular explanation, the large numbers of social celebrities who live beyond the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument are omitted. Naturally, as in the expose of conditions within the debutante ranks, the comments accompanying each name are more sensational than the actual grading...
...action to words, "Mmmm, I always like to dip my bread into my coffee at breakfast, but the Queen doesn't like it and only lets me do it when there is no one present but the family." Screamed Hearstpapers: IT'S OUT! THE KING IS A BUNKER...
...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 to avoid going home one down, he sank it. It was his most important shot of the day. Voigt was weak climbing out of the Valley of Sin (swale in front of the 18th...
When war was declared Graves enlisted almost at once, got a commission in the famed line regiment, Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill: the only blot on its scutcheon was the surrender at Yorktown. In the Royal Welch the atmosphere was much the same as at Charterhouse: the regular officers resented and despised "outsiders." but discipline was perfect, morale high; they were pretty fighters...