Word: footfault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LOVE GAME?Suzanne Lenglen?Adelphi ($2). Let tongues come out of cheeks and scoffing stifle. As novels go, Suzanne's is no ace, but she has not committed a footfault. No just judge may accuse her of overstepping her knowledge. Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion. Circumstances make it necessary for her to turn professional. She has English suitors. She becomes involved with an Argentine. She gambles at Monte Carlo. Her love affairs are complicated by a code of honor more British than Gallic, and solved by tactics allegedly American?but what shrewd...