Word: countrywoman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contains an innocent West Pointer, a brainy girl from the States and a Dolores whose scented mantilla appears at first to be the real Castilian thing. The scene is perfumed Manila, "charged with alien, bewildering passions" (cf. jacket). The West Pointer is not inflamed by the virtue of his countrywoman's doctrine of drainage and spelling for the natives, but Dolores, an honest-to-goodness Spanish senorita, and in trouble-well, that is different. When the clay feet of Dolores peep from beneath her wicked skirts, the West Pointer in due form "goes native," rather shockingly...
...outran, outthrew their French, Belgian, Czecho-Slovakian, Swiss and Italian sisters in an international track meet. World's records went splintering on every hand. Mary Lines, "Paddock Feminine," who starred for England in the first Women's Olympiad at Monte Carlo in 1922, won three events. Her countrywoman, Miss Trickey, won the 1,000-metre run. A French giantess won the discus throw and shot-put. Italy's alibi for finishing last was that four of her most active athletes were halted at the Italian border...
...That's what I call 'bosh.' I've played on all kinds of courts and with all kinds of balls, and class will always tell!" In the invitation tennis tournament held at Roehampton, also a suburb of London, Mrs. Molla Mallory was defeated by her countrywoman, Eleanor Goss. Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup of the U. S. defeated Miss E. H. Harvey of Britain. The scores were: 6-4, 6-1 in the Mallory-Goss match; 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 in the Jessup-Harvey match...