Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen Wills stepped out to despatch Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the women's finals. The court was juicy as buttered asparagus with a recent rainfall, a circumstance which boded ill for Miss Wills. Both players wore spiked shoes, but before the first set was six games old, Miss Ryan was taking off her shoes. The gallery giggled. She tried on a pair with soles of crape rubber. They skidded. She tried on a pair borrowed from William M. Johnston. The gallery tittered again. Miss Ryan removed her footwear altogether, began to scuttle about the court in stocking feet...
...Duchess of York, former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, opened at London an international conference of women engaged in scientific research. Lady Astor, beaming, was in the chair...
...Australians Patterson and Hawkes took the doubles from Malcolm Hill and Henry Johnson. In an exhibition doubles match, Miss Wills and Miss Mary K. Browne were beaten by Miss Eleanor Goss and Miss Elizabeth Ryan. The last player, home from England, had not played tennis in the U. S. for 13 years...
...Elizabeth Derby's House, Peabody, Mass.-a fine example of the early Federal period. Over the mantel in the living room are two pictures of New England village life, done by that forgotten but once fashionable Italian, Corne of Naples. The first is called Saturday Night; the second, Sunday Morning...
...Brussels, there was a bustle after the departure for the U. S. of Soprano Elizabeth Day, who recently sang songs in various languages-first in French, then in Italian, English, Spanish, Hebrew and finally, for the first time since the War, in German. This daring feat was received with applause...