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Meantime, in the other bracket, came an upsetter in the person of brown, brawny Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight times National Champion. Seeming to forget her years, but not her craft, Mrs. Mallory stepped briskly to the court, flashed her teeth, stamped her feet, theatrically eliminated England's No. 1 player, bouncing Betty Nuthall, 6-3, 6-3. Thus she flouted a Wills-Nuthall semifinal, long anticipated. Thus she herself gained the privilege of playing Champion Wills. That privilege, however, lasted only 20 minutes, with the grim Californian giving her not a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's National | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...broke down, pushed his car the last mile, finished among the leaders, was disqualified. In 1925 Harry Hartz finished fourth, having driven the last half of the race with his car's frame sprung out of line, the front axle bent, the steering post torn loose from its bracket, a film of oil squirting in his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indianapolis Speed | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which now the pulse was still throbbing, throbbing with the terrible vitality of women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Selfless Life | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Despite its atrocious style, its incongruity in a bracket of sheer apartment houses, those familiar with the castle's tradition regard it affectionately, reverently. For here live the Potter Palmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Where Was Bertha? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Harvard and West Point stand at the extremities of the bracket of education. But though these be as other East and West, parodox rules today, not Kipling. And implicit within them is that American homogeneity that makes this rendezvous appeal to the pulses of each. The permanence of the effect of Harvard on West Point and West Point on Harvard is no key to the value of this meeting. No such heightening is needed for the healthy contrasting colors that make this a welcome Saturday at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS FIELD | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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