Word: eclat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forest Hills, L. I. last week, Helen Jacobs won the U. S. national tennis championship for the third year in a row. Last year, when Helen Wills Moody defaulted in the final, Miss Jacobs' victory lacked eclat, served to increase the un- reasonable antipathy with which U. S. galleries regard her. She won in 1932 when Mrs. Moody was not entered. With Mrs. Moody out of the field again last week, Miss Jacobs dropped only one set, to Mary Greef Harris of Kansas City, gave demure little Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass, a lesson in the final...
Having organized, reorganized, consolidated and reformed everything in sight. Nazi Germany last week turned to the delicate matter of Big Business. With typical Nazi eclat, newshawks were commanded to appear at the Ministry...
...blaze of glory and then carefully cloaked from vulgar inquiry, have come once more, and in a very fitting manner, to the attention of all. The senior of their number, now seventeen, has just been elected to Phi-Beta Kappa, with a truly prodigious grade average and amid appropriate eclat. Northwestern seems to feel that this vindicates the essential wisdom of her experiment, and even Dr. Flexner declares that he is reminded of his old dream of a prodigy high school in New York...
...lunchrooms and coffeepots named for Dinty Moore's, refuge of Jiggs from perpetual fusillades. "Bringing Up Father," besides running in the newspapers of 71 countries in 29 languages and making Cartoonist George McManus a millionaire, has appeared as a book, burlesque show. Last week, with eclat suitable to U. S. heroes, was celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first appearance of Jiggs & Maggie...
...Lindsay (ex-1901), Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva of Zion City, Ill., Board Chairman James Anson Campbell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Cleveland Banker George York. On its quiet campus, one of whose buildings is the College's original Main Hall, the celebration took place last week with fitting eclat...