Word: elias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not "have time" to defend her title at Wimbledon last week, Betty Nuthall was the favorite to win the British Women's Championship. Her chief competitors were Helen Jacobs of Santa Monica, Calif., second ranking U. S. woman player in 1929; cocktail-drinking, tango-dancing Senorita Elia ("Lili") de Alvarez, who twice lost to Helen Wills in the Wimbledon finals; and Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, first ranking U. S. woman player, a Californian with a hard left-handed drive, who lost to Betty Nuthall in the finals of the U. S. championships at Forest Hills last summer...
...Senorita Elia de Alvarez, wearing a split skirt which resembled a pair of abbreviated pajamas, won her first match and lost her next to a coolheaded, methodical British girl named Dorothy Round...
Headquarters for the club were established at Harvard and the following officers were elected: Tsetsi, president; Dr. Dimetra Tsina, vice-president; Peter Katundi, secretary; P. A. Tyko '32, treasurer. An advisory committee composed of Ethel Peterson, Madeline Theodore, and Andrea Elia, also was appointed...