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...kind of golf that club champions play in the locker-room after the fifth highball. Olin Dutra, U. S. Open champion, could not qualify. Ky Laffoon (no kin to Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky), young Oklahoman who has been a golf professional since he was 15, beat Horton Smith 12 up in 26 holes. Herman Barren, the only famed Jewish golf professional in the U. S., had Gene Sarazen, defending champion, 2 down at the 28th hole. Sarazen got birdies on the next two holes to square the match, then got a birdie 3 at the 33rd. sank...
...Olaya Herrera greeted each other. After mutual professions of esteem and goodwill, the two Presidents took a drive about the 400-year-old capital of the Spanish Main. A point of interest was the old fort over the harbor. President Roosevelt could claim no direct connection with it by kin, but he recalled that when the British tried to take it in 1741, Lawrence Washington, brother of the first President, was on the expedition. President Herrera's interest in the place was chiefly occasioned by the fact that during one of Colombia's revolutions he had spent some unpleasant hours...
...kin to nightmare-ridden WilIiam Faulkner...
...forbidden to give out any information," they ordered. "Here are two urns. They contain the ashes." Fearfully the von Schleicher kin buried the urns in a grave over which they dared not place the smallest cross or mark...
...year George Washington made peace with George III a young Hartford, Conn.† lawyer named Noah Webster (no kin to the later Daniel) published a spelling book. In 1807 he set his great jaw, sat down to write an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold...