Word: doings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"In my own family the princes who have no capacity and no ability have nothing to do with the government service. I, therefore, take the opportunity of advising that you who are fortunate to be in this honorable family should in the future try to better yourselves by special qualifications...
Among Harvard men a story is told. One day last year an unobtrusive man was shown into the office of President A. Lawrence Lowell in University Hall. Like a caged lion, the President was pacing back and forth and round and round, hands clasped in back. His visitor seated himself...
Though the story may be apocryphal in detail, it well suggests the temper of Harkness giving. His frequent and princely donations to education and charity have always been unobtrusive, modest. In philanthropy he does not bunch his hits as do the Rockefellers, but scatters gifts of $100,000 or more...
It was generally conceded that Karel Kozeluh and Vincent Richards would meet in the finals as they do in all U. S. Professional tournaments, whether played on boards, clay, or grass. The other pros who played them in their respective divisions of the draw failed to take many games. Howard...
It is an axiom of professional tennis that Kozeluh can be beaten by any player who scores his aces twice in succession, a condition made necessary by the fact that Kozeluh is pretty sure to return the first ace. This small, brown Czechoslovakian, who punctuates his game with little whirls...