Word: californianism
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...borders. If she (or he) has I shall be like "the boy the calf ran over." If not. I rise to protest that it is tyrannical to make a poor prairie farmer who can get only 4 1/2? per Ib. for his wool pay $8 for TIME when a Californian who is protected by a 31? tariff can get the same publication...
Dorothy Weisel, a hard-hitting California girl against whom Mrs. Moody has no grudge as she has against Californian Helen Jacobs, was next. She covered her court well, made Mrs. Moody run her hardest, lost...
...best match of the day was the last. Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, a slim, Indian-looking lady, like Mrs. Moody and Miss Jacobs a Californian, gave Dorothy Round a round beating...
...Doeg, U. S. champion. Doeg's play in the early rounds had been weakly erratic-he played a deuce-set match in the first round, dropped a set to an obscure player in the second, almost lost his next match to an exhausted opponent, barely got past a Californian named Jack Tidball in the semifinals. He had already confessed that he did not expect to regain the U. S. championship this year and the readiness with which he had turned his hand to writing for publication suggested that he was eager to capitalize his laurels while he had them...
...first ten a decade ago, it looked as though she had gone back. Mrs. Jessup outdrove her in the first set, led at 4-2, and only lost the warm match 6-4, 6-3. Two days later Mrs. Moody thoroughly confused her critics by beating her fellow Californian, Helen Jacobs, 6-0, 6-0, in 32 minutes...