Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matches to 4. Practically all of the contests were close, four of them going to three sets, the comeback of Captain D. M. Frame '32 and Edward Orlandini '32 to capture the first doubles match from Harte and Warner of Yale, 1-6, 6-4, 6-5, exhibiting especially brilliant playing. The matches were played on the Divinity Courts...
...sided smile. Her drives were long, her irons had sting. Miss Collett suddenly became nervous, uncertain. Calmly Joyce Wethered advanced to lead. It was on the 15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett attempt to win back the morning's lead. Glenna Collett had taken a brilliant four. Miss Wethered had to sink an 18-foot putt to halve. She putted. For the first twelve feet the ball rolled so fast that it made a white line on the green. Then it slowed, took minutes and minutes. Finally it dropped into the hole in the turf. Miss Collett...
Because Diegel had been the most brilliant player in the Ryder Cup matches at Moortown, and because he is something of a golfing freak, the crowds at Muirfield followed him throughout the tournament. His swing is jerky, the face of his club twists sharply at the moment of impact. He lunges at the ball, moves his feet. When he putts, his forearms are parallel to the ground, the shaft perpendicular, the left elbow pointing to the hole, the hands within breathing distance of his stomach in a posture as of prayer. Few tyros try to copy his style, though perhaps...
...Robinson nowadays spends his winters at leisure in New York, his summers at the MacDowell colony in New Hampshire, where he works laboriously all day, shoots facile pool far into the night. Tall and slender, he has the drooped shoulders of the scholar. Shy, quiet, secretive, he has a brilliant occasional smile. Accused of an obscurity as great as Browning's he murmurs: "Why can't they read one word after another...
Another old story. Haircut, proves Lardner brilliant in technique. The village barber, shearing a newcomer, drawls bits of village gossip that slowly arrange themselves into a small drama of love, jealousy, and murder done by an impressionable idiot...