Dan’s Papers January 21, 2011 danspapers.com Page 14
Golf
Whitman
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have made a ruling. I thought it might be of interest to East Enders. BOINK! Last summer, a doctor takes the other in the head on Long Island with a moving golf ball without “Fore!” The second doctor who was blind in one eye and suffers neurological damage, which now limits his ability to practice (his job, not his golf) is suing the other for $1,000,000 for negligence for not screaming that word. The term “Fore!” as part of the etiquette of golf is, by a player, a ball off course or hit too far and is aware cried be that because of its trajectory, it could be a different flavor golfer or a person, a calculation of angle and Speed, which would only be hitting golfers in the position to know. The origins of the word “Fore!” came from a time shortly after invented gunpowder, and when in a military engagement was a cannon be fired on. The person lighting the fuse should cry “Beware!” to lit. This case, after a ruling by a court of first instance has a NewYork State Court of Appeals in which an appeal court judge has issued, has increased. I thought it might be of interest to EastEnders. *
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No wonder different countries have such trouble getting along with one another.
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referred to as “the parish smuggling scandal.” I cannot figure out what that was. But Smith was part of it. He left shortly after his sermon denouncing Whitman and the “troubles” that followed, and found new employment at a church in Connecticut. Maybe this was his parting shot. More interesting stuff. When Whitman was 11, he concluded his formal schooling. At 13, he worked briefly in the pressroom of the weekly Long Island newspaper The Patriot, edited by Samuel E. Clements, (later known as Mark Twain.) Whitman also worked as a clerk in a law office when he was 15. When he was 17, he joined the Smithtown Debating Society and was promptly elected secretary. He was associated with some of the most prominent members of the town, including two judges, two physicians, a congressman, a member of the New York legislature, a dentist and several printers and farmers. After Southold, Whitman taught elsewhere and also wrote a series of weekly columns for a newspaper on Long Island. There were 11 columns, which Whitman announced as “The Sun-Down Papers.” “I plan to publish a wonderful and ponderous book that will survey the nature and peculiarities of men. I disclaim all knowledge of woman because it behooves a modest personage like myself not to speak upon a class of beings whose nature, habits, notions and ways he has not been able to gather any knowledge, either by experience or observation. And about my book, who shall say that it might not be a very pretty
book? Who knows but that I might do something very respectable?” The rest of that column studies the theory that being rich can be a very dangerous thing. For a further view of Whitman at this time, go to danspapers.com and read the account of Orvetta Hall Brenton, at whose uncle’s house this dreamer stayed during the summer of 1839 while supposedly working for Mr. Brenton at his newspaper in Jamaica. Here is the beginning of her account. “My mother-in-law, Mrs. Brenton, was a practical, busy, New England woman and very obviously, from her remarks about Whitman, cared very little for him and held him in scant respect. He was at that time a dreamy impracticable youth who did very little work and who was always under foot and in the way. Except that he was in evidence physically, he lived his life very much to himself. One thing that impressed Mrs. Brenton unfavorably was his disregard of the two children of the household—two small boys—who seemed very much to annoy him when they were with him in the house. “Mrs. Brenton always emphasized, when speaking of Whitman, that he was indolent and lazy and had a very pronounced disinclination to work! During some of the time he was in the household, the apple trees in the garden were in bloom. When Whitman would come from the printing office and finish the mid-day dinner, he would go out into the garden, lie on his back under the apple tree, and forget everything about going back to work as he gazed up at the blossoms and the sky...”
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