Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a final and as ever victorious verbal struggle with the Davis Cup committee, Big Bill Tilden and his fellow tennis warriors have sailed to engage in the first Davis Cup matches an American team has played away from home for many years. What the chances are for Tilden, Lott, Hennessey, Hunter and Coen to ensure next year's contest being on American soil will be uncertain for many weeks yet, but for a year at any rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe...
...family of the founder of famed Scranton, Pa. Daughter-in-law Scranton was elected to the National Committee this spring, after narrowly escaping defeat. Because she is dashingly attractive ("God's greatest gift to mankind," she was once called in a nominating speech), some of her fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John Wanamaker's daughter, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, whose husband is the new Mayor of Palm Beach...
Present as the only Foreign Minister of a Great Power to attend was Sir Austen Chamberlain, jovial to fellow diplomats, glacial to the press, British...
...dramatically precipitated by the sudden emergence from retirement of famed Eleutheris Venizelos, mighty Elder Statesman. Upon resuming his leadership of the Liberal Party, M. Venizelos was understood to have demanded the Prime Ministry for himself; but last week he agreed to support the return to that office of his fellow Liberal, present Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis...
...farce, its scene is a room in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building, where eight reporters are engaged in covering a murder trial. They have almost succeeded in persuading the sheriff to stage the execution ahead of schedule, in time for the early editions, when the murderer, a meek little fellow, shoots his way out of jail. Hildy Johnson, the most agile of the newsgatherers, captures him by good luck and attempts to conceal him in a rolltop desk until he has had time to scoop the story...