Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the quirky vanity of genius, he does boast about his skill at tennis, a game he loved. Sir Edward Speyer, the British financier and patron of music, recalls Casals' arriving at his estate one day in the early 1900s and announcing, "First we'll play six sets of tennis and then the two Brahms sextets...