Word: eileen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slight, blonde English girl with long legs and pale, wistful eyes, moved quickly around a tennis court in Auteuil trying to return the shots that Helen Wills sent at her. The English girl's name was Eileen Bennett and she was steady and careful and did well though it was clear to her and to everyone that she had no chance. They were playing on a hard court for the championship of France and it was well known that Helen Wills wanted to win since she had come to Auteuil for that purpose. Once the English girl broke through...
...Helen Wills came to the semi-finals of the international hardcourt championship. She beat a nervous Dutch girl by the name of Rollin Couquerque who weighed nearly 200 pounds and made twelve double-faults. With Francis T. Hunter for partner Miss Wills played an exhibition match in Paris against Eileen Bennet (England) and Henri Cochet. All four played at top speed, laughed when they missed, congratulated each other, made jokes, and agreed with the umpire. Bennet and Cochet...
Married. David Kalakaua Kawamanakoa, second cousin of Hawaii's last male ruler, King Kalakaua, son of Princess David Kawamanakoa, Republican National Committeewoman; to Eileen Hutchins, student at the University of Hawaii, daughter of Captain Charles T. Hutchins, U.S.N.; in Honolulu...
Married. Sean O'Casey, famed Irish playwright (Juno and the Paycock) ; to Eileen Carey, actress (Irish Players Co.) ; in London. Eccentric Mr. O'Casey wore a sweater during the ceremony, as he usually does to theatre first nights...
Married. The Hon. Ivor Montagu, 22, third son of wealthy Jewish banker, Lord Swaythling, head of Samuel Montagu & Co.; to Typist Eileen Hellstern, daughter of a surgical shoemaker; secretly, in London...