Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team from Down Under was a twosome: 25-year-old Adrian Quist, a fifth year Davis Cupper rated by many as the world's No. 2 amateur; and 19-year-old John Bromwich, a sophomore who caused a sensation in international tennis last year with his either-handed, both-handed racket grip. On the U. S. side was the world's No. 1 amateur, U. S.-English-French-Australian Champion Donald Budge; his doubles partner, Gene Mako; and 20-year-old Robert Riggs, the Los Angeles "quickie" who in two years had jumped from the municipal tennis courts...
Davis Cup Challenge Round (Sat. 2:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 3 p.m.; Mon. 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m., CBS). Between U. S. Tennists Donald Budge, Gene Mako, Robert Riggs, Australians Adrian Quist, John Bromwich, at the Germantown Cricket Club; described by Sportscaster Ted Husing...
...three weeks ago with three of this season's foreign tennis crowns (Australian, French, English) on his carroty head, he turned his thoughts to defense of the Davis Cup, scheduled for Labor Day weekend at Germantown, Pa. "If Australia beats Germany in the interzone final, I figure Adrian Quist and John Bromwich might be good for one victory apiece in the challenge round against us," said...
...picture presents French royalty as what it always has been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning corners...
...Piere writes with more color and smoothness than most of his colleagues, draws much of his material from newspapers and magazines. Hence, he scrutinizes a number of phenomena which are rarely mentioned in scientific books-Fred Astaire and Jessie Matthews, the chain-letter craze, the Big Apple, Fashion Stylist Adrian of Hollywood, Variety. He turns a coldly skeptical and sardonic eye on the standard apologies for capitalism, also on the ideologies of democracy ("the safest votes, as every practical politician knows, are those which have been 'bought' "). But neither does he show any enthusiasm for leftist or rightist...