Word: closets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole country was concerned with Oakmont. Famed reporters wrote about Watts Gunn, told how much his style resembled that of Jones, his friend, companion, coach; described his nervousness before a gallery, even fabricating a ludicrous story of his attempts to turn off an electric light hinged on a closet door. Young Gunn played the famed Jess Sweetser. His 27 holes were in 2 strokes under par; his approach work was sharpshooting, his putts were as accurate as target pistol-shots, his drive was a cannonade. He beat the onetime amateur champion 10 up and 9 to go. Next...
...Bolton, who took the part of Polly Peachum in the original production of the Beggars' Opera) and The Divine Lady (Lady Hamilton), is a person who discerns the folly of conceiving a colorful biography and embroidering it to the current taste in refined wantonness, when History's closet affords the skeletons of many such- authentic shades already advertised, even to an ill-schooled generation. She (internal evidence fixes the gender) has but to draw about the rummaged bones their traditional glamour, judiciously intensified and sympathetically explained. So here we have a florid Woman's Byron, contrived...
...Steal more jam and I'll whistle for the green-eared boogey man in the hall closet...
Item: The brothers Rosenblum 2G.B., were discovered smothered in a closet in Persis Smith Hall, where they had been quietly awaiting the Freshman celebration. (N. B. There is just a slight possibility that this last item may be left over from a previous Jubilee...
...Faculty of Medecine announces a lecture by Dr. Francis W. Palfrey on "The Family Medecine Closet" to be given at Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, tomorrow afternoon. This is the second of a series of five lectures on medical subjects. The lectures begin promptly at 4 o'clock...