Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a big grass-stain on his white flanneled knee, William Tilden, champion of the world, limped over to the umpire's stand and wiped Bis bleak face with a towel. It was the third set and thirteenth game of his match against Rene Lacoste, at Germantown, and he was a game behind...
...pine-topped hills and the bleak, oblong, white chateau held no interest for Herr Laumann. His eyes sought instead a low wooden cross which he believed marked the grave of Marie, Baroness Vetschera, the dark heroine of Mayerling. Herr Laumann, young, strewed the grave with roses, paused, laid a note upon the ground: "If possible bury me here beside the Baroness Vetschera...
...stock association, which from 1670 to 1859 held exclusive exploitation rights in what is now Canada, still endures. It still remains the sole contact with civilization which many a far north community has. Last week it acquired the trading rights of Moravian missionaries among the grim fishermen of Labrador, bleak 400-mile fringe of northeast North America. Recent explorations indicate that the Labrador hinterland holds high hydro-electric power stores...
...Spaniard-that is, with bold light, harsh shading. His story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction with strong bones...
...impressive, but then it has rarely seemed impressive against Tilden these last several years. Johnston can nearly always beat Vincent Richards, though Richards beats the champion oftener than anybody else. In the Davis Cup matches Johnston has made a better record than Tilden. But on the court with the bleak-faced Philadelphian his strength becomes as thistledown. In curious truth, the very soundness and accuracy of his game are helpful to the champion. Tilden likes speed. He likes a high-bounding ball. Johnston gives him both. Although "Vinny" Richards often beats Tilden, he did not last week. With a devastating...