Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richards won from Rene Lacoste, Johnson from Alonzo, Williams from Howard Kinsey. In the semi-final round Tilden, after dropping the first set, paid Vincent Richards the compliment of opposing him with his utmost, with the consequence that Richards steadily lost hope and games, going to pieces in the last set to surrender, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. Johnston devoted 47 minutes to the disposal of Richard Norris Williams 2nd, who as usual could not summon his own brilliance when he needed it most...
Chalif proudly placed this clever compliment in all his advertisements...
...open a public golf course by driving the first ball. To caddies, the Duke said: "I'll give a gold sovereign (?1) to the caddy who retrieves the ball." Off scampered the caddies. Some stopped 75 yards away, others at the 100-yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies by yards, bounced, came to a halt 210 yards from...
Professor W. R. Spalding '87 of the Department of Music, in commenting on the concert last night, said: "Lieutenant Sousa pays the University a very handsome compliment by giving a concert this fall in Sanders Theatre. It will undoubtedly be a superb concert and everyone who wishes to hear it should bear the date in mind and arrange to be in Cambridge at the time. Certainly no student will regret the time thus spent, however busy he may be with the many necessary activities connected with registration...
...Superiority in games," he argued, "is really not inherent in the British race." Then he went on to show that previous English supremacy in sport came because the British had invented and developed almost every game except baseball, and that other countries had paid England the compliment of imitation. He took the very wholesome view that England has conferred great benefits on the world through games. Of course it is annoying for a nation to be beaten at games developed by itself, but the philosophical Lord Balfour is ready to admit candidly that Englishmen are not fitted by nature...