Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, manager of the Washington, D. C., baseball team; to Elizabeth Sutherland, daughter of Alien Property Custodian and onetime (1917-23) Senator Howard Sutherland...
...even his efforts, and those of the doughty Chapin, could not prevail against the gleaming, electrical teamwork of Richards and Williams who, rushing for the net after every serve, volleyed their way to the doubles championship of the U. S., 6-4, 6-8, 11-9, 6-3. Elizabeth Ryan and Jean Borotra took the mixed doubles title; Major A. J. Gore and Claude Butlin the Veterans'; Donald and Malcolm Hill, the Father...
...Forest Hills when Helen Wills announced her withdrawal, animation slipped away from the Woman's National; to make matters worse a pewter sky settled like a plate over the boggy courts. A glance at the draw made it seem likely that Mrs. Mallory would meet Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the finals and likely also that she would win. Against Miss Ryan, Mary K. Browne might make a bid, but Miss Browne was able to win only four games in two sets, and out came red Miss Ryan to battle brown Mrs. Mallory, just as expected. She soon went back...
...TIME OF MAN-Elizabeth Madox Roberts - Viking Press ($2.50). It is felt at once that this book was a long time in the writing; that, now it is here, it constitutes a distinguished contribution to the abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from...
...improvements, after that which houses the toys of Princess Mary's two infant sons, at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME, May 3) the Princess Elizabeth (aged, at present, nearly four months.) During that period their royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of York, (parents of Elizabeth, "the baby who is always smiling") will journey to Australia on the cruiser Renown and there inaugurate the new Australian Capital, Canberra...