Word: dianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Venzke had a field of eight to beat in the final. He let Henry Brocksmith of In diana hold the lead till the back stretch of the last lap before he sprinted to pass him. What happened then made it the most amazing race of the meet. When Venzke took the lead, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, a Harvard miler who was beaten in the intercollegiate meet, sprinted to over take him. Venzke matched Hallowell's pace for 20 strides then dropped. Two more collegians, Frank Crowley of Manhattan College and Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, closed in and passed Venzke...
...three ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty Enid Wilson ran into the ground husky Helen Hicks, the gallery's grinning, clowning favorite. Diana Fishwick, a highstrung little fighter, did the same for Maureen Orcutt. The matches were even at three for England, three...
...Last year reported engaged to 18-year-old Lady Diana Wellesley...
...Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana. For almost 40 years newspaper poets, after-dinner speakers, prize fighters, cab drivers, club members waxed sentimental about her. William Sydney ("O. Henry") Porter wrote one of his best known stories, "The Lady Higher Up," about her, and Architect Stanford White was shot dead at her feet...
...neck and hauled her down to make room for the New York Life Insurance Building, while a group of mourners including Elder Statesman Elihu Root and the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard stood bareheaded in the rain. Sentimentalists were comforted by an announcement from the insurance company that Diana would not leave New York. She would be presented to New York University as soon as $65,000 was raised to build a proper tower for her to stand on. That was seven years ago. Elder Statesman Root took charge of the building fund, Diana retired to a Brooklyn warehouse...