Word: englishwomen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millionaires of America, though much in the public eye, are in a microscopic minority, and it is no fairer to judge [American women] by the wives of millionaires than it would be, for example, to generalize about Englishwomen from the riders in the Row or the owners of boxes at the Opera...
...Englishwomen, robust and resolute, obtained the vote after smashing shopwindows, slapping policemen, hunger striking. French suffragettes, no less resolute, but not so robust, perfected last week a feminine program designed to terrorize those Senators of France who obstinately continue to block French women's suffrage...
...middle of the court. Unsure at the net, she stayed in the back court, hit her drives hard, but kept putting them out or in the net with the result that she and her partner were beaten, 6-2, 6-1. This is the first time the Englishwomen have won the Wightman Cup since...
...determine who is the best player in the U. S. Most of them felt that Helen Wills was the best, with the others ranked in fairly predictable groups behind her. Matters went as expected through the early rounds. Miss Wills won, Mrs. Molla Mallory won, all the visiting Englishwomen won except Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree who defaulted to save herself for doubles...
National Women's Doubles. The Englishwomen finally poked their heads above the tidal wave of defeat which has drenched their invading aspirations. Miss Kathleen McKane and Mrs. B. C. Covell won the national doubles championship by steadiness and clockwork team play from Miss Eleanor Goss and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. Score: 2?6, 6?2, 6?1. Of singular interest during the match was the pronounced partisanship of the American audience for the English players...