Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kinsey brothers, defending titleholders, bowed in straight sets to the superior daring of Vincent Richards and R. Norris Williams. Next day a cloud of witnesses saw these two put out Johnston and Griffin, 6-2, 8-10, 6-4, 11-9, in the semifinal, to face, Gerald Patterson and John Hawkes of Australia...
...body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of his period, would appear almost slight if mounted upon a very fat pony-that the obese quadruped would appear speedy as a blooded stallion if he were poised on his hind-legs against a sky of troubled fire and blown grey cloud. (The result of Velazquez's cogitation, Prince Baltasar Carlos, hangs in the Prado Gallery in Madrid...
Thousand Guineas. Down the spacious, windy fairways of Gleneagles, Scotland, perhaps the grandest golf course in the world, professionals from far and wide beat their balls as they qualified to play for the annual bag of a thousand guineas ($5,000). Vivacious Aubrey Boomer of St. Cloud, France, led them all with a record 69, until swart Abe Mitchell passed him with a pair of 70's for the two rounds. Joe Kirkwood, sole U. S. entrant, was lucky to qualify with 153, the first 80 strokes of which were somewhat impeded by a family of ducks that paraded...
Heinrich Steinweg had a long brown beard that lay on his chest like a cloud guarding a secret. His son, Charles, also had a beard, but he was a wild, moonlighting fellow, and the end of it was that he had to flee the country. His choice left him free to write a letter home in which he described glowingly the country he had reached. His father, mother, six assorted brothers, sisters, set out to reach his side. When Henry Clay was making a vain but practised compromise with Death, and John Calhoun had roared his last, Peter Cooper, builder...
Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, having won the women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis championships of France (TIME, June 15), put away her brace of rackets, adventured on the golf course of the St. Cloud Country Club, turned in a 93* which won her second prize in a tournament organized by a sporting journal...