Word: frenchwoman
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Though one brandy-drinking Frenchwoman might be able to beat, after a gallant defense, an American champion, U. S. tennis-followers smiled softly over their lemonades, ginger ales and ice waters when they thought of the debacle that awaited the colors of France in the national indoor tournament about to be played in the Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan. Leaping Jean Borotra, heavy-lidded Réné LaCoste, and brisk Jaques Brugnon, nicknamed by an unoriginal pressman "The Three Musketeers," would face, if they came through the early rounds, William T. Tilden, Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunter. Optimism could...
...Guillaume l'assassinateur!" [Down with Wilhelm, instigator of assassins!] shrieked a Frenchwoman...
...Frenchwoman, Mle. Suzanne Lenglen, took exactly 26 minutes to win her sixth British championship in the women's singles by defeating Miss Joan Fry, 19, of England...
...Nice, Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen has been playing tennis, always victoriously. Loungers in the sunshine of the Riviera smiled with tolerant skepticism at these glorious triumphs of the leaping Frenchwoman, for they observed that the women she defeated had seldom been heard of before and were rarely heard of again. They, therefore, looked forward with some eagerness to the finals of the annual Nice tourney in which, they saw, Mlle. Lenglen would doubtless be opposed by Miss Elizabeth Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick...
...Author. Born in 1887, privately educated at his birthplace, Dublin, Ernest Boyd had no large part in the Irish literary renaissance but came well under its influence. He was on the editorial staff of the Irish Times for three years, married in 1913 (an able Frenchwoman) and entered the British Consular Service. After moving from Baltimore to Barcelona to Copenhagen, he returned to the U. S. in 1920, having vigorously continued his literary studies the while. Of late years, besides his omnivorous reading and a steady stream of magazine articles, book reviews and advice to Publisher Alfred A. Knopf...