Word: californianism
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...like to play in a bathing suit; England's cheery, sandy-haired Eileen Bennett and determined, hard-driving Betty Nuthall; Mme. Renee Mathieu who is France's greatest woman amateur; Miss E. L. Heinie who lives and plays in South Africa; rosy Fraulein Aussem of Germany, and the other Californian Helen, Miss Jacobs, who strained her back a few days before the tournament but did not think it would bother her and between whom and Helen Wills is supposed to exist not only rivalry but a shade of dislike...
...matches went on, Helen Wills and her sister Californian Edith Cross were roundly beaten by Elia de Alvarez and Kea Bouman, who won the doubles championship...
...Washington for its annual visit went a traveling company of the Metropolitan Opera. Of greatest interest and familiarity to President and Mrs. Hoover was Singer Lawrence Tibbett, native Californian, from Bakersfield (oil) hard by the Hoover ranch at San Joaquin (Sun Maid Raisins). Special mark of special interest: Singer Tibbett was invited to sing on Sunday at the White House. Two of Mr. Hoover's favorite songs are Ridi Pagliacci and The Road to Mandalay...
Manhattan Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett was Exposition Chairman. He is 55, small, white-haired, a native Californian. Both his father and mother were physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...
...Californian by birth, a Frenchman by education, a cosmopolite by diplomatic service, Mr. Gibson was last week the guest of President Hoover at the White House. For six months after the war he was on duty with Mr. Hoover in European relief work...