Word: blan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three silent years. Because a crowd had pushed and howled at Troon in 1926 when she was playing Glenna Collett she decided to play no more for championship golf cups. It made no difference to her that Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume and then Mlle. Manette le Blan thereafter won the British Ladies' Title. Joyce Wethered, whose impersonality sometimes is tantamount to genteel insolence, plays golf for amusement and crowds do not amuse her. But last week on St. Andrew's course in Scotland she played again for a championship. Again she met Glenna Collett, again...
There were several Americans left now and one more Frenchwoman-Mlle. Manette Le Blan. Miss Collett got to the fourth round where she played a tired little woman by the name of Wragg who came out on the first tee wearing hornrimmed spectacles, a leather jacket with a sweater under it, woolen stockings, thick shoes, and woolen gloves. Miss Collett, always natty, had on a thin blue raincoat. Warm and ugly, Miss Wragg kept her ball in the middle of the course. Miss Collett stopped before each shot to warm her fingers with her breath. "How do you feel?" asked...
Next day Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, the last U. S. player, was beaten by an Englishwoman named Fowler who was beaten by one named Marshall who then played Mlle. Le Blan in the finals. There was rain again and the cold sea wind harried the dunes. The big gallery scared both women, but Mlle. Le Blan least. Mlle. Le Blan has a flashing eye, a hook nose, a big mouth, and a strong, graceful body. She wore stockings, leather coat, woolen gloves, like Miss Wragg. Since she felt comfortable her drives were long and hard, her putts accurate. She beat...
Madame Sans Gene (pronounced san-Géne) was a play written in 1893 by Victorien Sardou, based on a well-known story of the Napoleonic period about Sergeant Pierre null Joseph Lefebvre (later made general, marshal. Duke of Danzig) who married a blan-chisseuse (washerwoman) to the French guards. She, Catharine Hubscher, never varnishing over her early manners, acquired the nickname Madame Sans Géne, rather freely translated as Mrs. Uncouth...