Word: frame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Bill" required only 42 minutes to drive powerful Patterson from the court, 6-2, 6-0, 6-0. Stored in Johnston's spidery, shrunken little frame was a force that utterly amazed the galleries. "Big Bill" was seriously extended and outgeneraled by Richards during four smashing sets. In the fifth he drew himself up to his full tennis height, rallied stoutly, squelched the last but one obstacle to a fifth consecutive title. In the finals, Big Bill removed this last obstacle, game though it was, in straight sets; 6-1, 9-7, 6-2. Little Bill struggled valiantly...
...force that amazed the galleries, stored in a spidery, shrunken little frame...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., visitors at white frame house called "Casa Firpo" discovered its gigantic, morose, hirsute inmate, Louis Firpo, seated on the front porch sipping draughts of tea. That beverage was the Argentine Bull Man's recipe for the hard muscles he will need in Newark on Sept. 11 when he flings himself upon Harry Wills, huge black, in a fistic engagement that promises to become historic for its violence...
Darrow has been frequently characterized in the press as "a great stage artist, a greater artist than lawyer." One M. L. Edgar, in the St. Louis Mirror, has described his personal appearance thus : "Of more than average height, a frame that ambles along carelessly, with toes kicked up in process of walking-movements that range from slowness of contemplation to mercurial quickness of sudden resolution-on broad shoulders, a round head, marked by an oppressively full brow which overarches the face like a crag-eyes, of gooseberry size and color, which roam restlessly or assume a fixed expression...
...Albans, L. I., gaunt of frame, seamed of face, James Maiden, professional of the Nassau Country Club, plugged along under a scorching sun and won the Long Island open golf championship. Starting with a dazzling 68, he slipped up ten strokes that afternoon, ran second to young Francis Gallett, Laurelton professional, at the end of the first day. Seventy for his third round helped, 74 for his fourth won the championship by two strokes. Gallett, whose huge drives and tiny putts scampered astray too often, took second money with...