Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team of specialists on the job could be reasonably sure that when it was done not a brush stroke, a clumsily veined leaf, a speck of dust or a beaver hair out of place would mar the illusion of paralyzed reality. Fooling the eye, they agreed, is just a matter of patience and technique...
Died. George Moran, 67, straight man of the richly nostalgic radio and vaudeville black-face comedy team of Moran & Mack (The Two Black Crows); of a stroke; in Oakland, Calif. The act, belly laugh of the Ziegfeld Follies in the '20s, folded in 1934 when Charles E. Mack was killed in an automobile accident...
Bradshaw's drive off the fifth tee landed in the bottom half of a broken bottle lying in the rough. He studied the impossible lie, gulped and selected a niblick. One mighty swat sent glass splinters flying, but the ball trickled only a few feet. That stroke cost him the British Open...
Bradshaw finished the 72 holes in 283 strokes to tie South Africa's heavy-jowled Bobby Locke and force a playoff. Next day, Bradshaw took a 12-stroke trouncing from precision-putter Locke, who fired a 67 and 68 over the Royal St. George's course. Locke collected $1,200 for his victory. Harry Bradshaw could have used the money too, but then the story about the broken bottle would have lost its edge...
...half a century many a U.S. citizen has devoutly wished that Henry Louis Mencken would shut up. In all that time, he has been hushed only twice. From 1917 to 1919, the blocky bad man of U.S. letters refused to write under wartime censorship. Then, last November, a severe stroke (cerebral hemorrhage) left the 68-year-old gadfly partially paralyzed and stilled his buzzing. But not entirely. Even as he was brought to a halt, his latest book was in the printer's hands. It will remind old readers and explain to many a new one why the cigar...