Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old professional said that the most important thing to learn to do is to keep the ball in play. "The most difficult shot is the back hand," he added, "but the foreband drive, when mastered, will probably win more matches than anything else...
...regarding college tennis, he was most interested in talking about tennis in general and his own and Don Budge's game in particular. He characterized his own style as that of a "defensive retriever," while Budge was a "power house." "I keep my opponent stretching and Don smashes the ball at his feet...
...Indian leaders have fought so hard, spent so much of their personal fortune, endured such jail sentences in the cause of Indian nationalism as has Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Harrow- and Cambridge-educated Hindu Brahmin lawyer. Although calling himself a Socialist, Pandit Nehru has long played ball with Mahatma M. K. Gandhi's group of Rightists controlling the Indian National Congress, has compromised repeatedly, has twice been elected to the Congress presidency...
...social event of Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie...
...Feslermen started very slowly and soon found themselves on the shortened of a 10 to 4 count, but after that the edge in the play really belonged to them. they controlled the ball most of the contest but the glaring trouble was simply that no one could stop Mischo...