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...assumed the task of pinning safety pins upon stiff cloth. A ribbon was fastened to each safety pin. That made the task harder, but the little man's fingers flew. He pinned, and he pinned, faster, faster. Each pin must lie exactly straight. Each ribbon must hang just so. Faster, faster, FASTER...
...driver of Robert Tyre Jones swung down, flicked a blade of grass, a chip of rubber, came to rest over his right shoulder. Three hundred yards down the course the ball stopped rolling. Jones took an iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that...
...Senator pressed his quest farther back in history. "Oh, yes," Mrs. George replied, the antique cameo pin on her bosom rising upon a swell of honest pride, the W. C. T. U. had gone to the Governor's assistance long ago; in 1923, when the Legislature refused to vote him $250,000 to enforce Prohibition. She had gone to the Governor personally and told him that she and her colleagues would get that money for him. They had called their fund the "Governor's Enforcement Fund" and this was how it had been spent...
...battalion of officials was found necessary to keep track of the scoring, but these finally agreed that Abe Mitchell (who later confessed that he had paid no attention to the newfangled arrangements but just "played for the pin" as usual) had amassed 172 points and was the winner. C. H. Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light...
...contorted face of the one-armed man was seen to be made of flour sacking. Into the belly of the effigy a pin was stuck supporting a sheet of paper with the words: "Dr. Elwood Mead" [U. S. Commissioner of Reclamation]. The other horrible object bore the legend: "Dr. Hubert Work [U. S. Secretary of the Interior]. For breaking his word and depriving a project of water...