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...duffer into the serious mysteries of golf. Like any instruction book, this part is all very involved and reiterative, so eager is the teacher to tell all he knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British method and will not appeal greatly to Americans, who now favor the curt backswing with...
...toe nimbly pointed, as for the pirouette or gavotte...
...With toe nimbly pointed, as for the pirouette or gavotte...
...once did Ash fall; in the second round one of Villa's wild blows caught the back of his head, knocked him through the ropes. Villa won by his aggressiveness. He wore Ash down with his continual rain of blows. At the end of the bout the faultless toe-dancing was no more. Weary Ash was dancing flatfooted...
These financial difficulties pinch the social toe of Rumania's Queen, Marie. Mussolini told her she could not call on the Italian monarchs (TIME, April 7). Primo di Rivera, following the leader, told her she could not call on the Spanish. The French Senate voted money for entertaining her this Summer, but so great was the protest it became doubtful whether the moneys would be so used. Only Brussels beamed with a kindly light. The Belgian Foreign Office extended an official invitation to Queen Marie and her husband, Ferdinand...