Word: frith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound a thrashing as the Wimbledon champion has taken in years. The score: 8-6, 6-0, 6-4. The result, on the eve of the U.S.-Sweden zone finals, made good gamesman Hopman a likely candidate to go down in Gamesman history with such famed experts as Frith-Morteroy (master of the art of Countering the Crock), Edward Grice (specialist in the Secondary Hamper), and Stephen Potter himself (inventor of the Jack Rivers Opening). It also left the U.S. singles line-up just where it was a month...
Queen Victoria, and most of her subjects, regarded William Powell Frith as a great artist. His work had a whale of a lot of work in it, and that seemed a good thing to the Victorian eye. Frith spent two busy years on his 3-ft.-by-7-ft. Derby Day, crammed the canvas with 3,000 spectators: a happy, seething mob of dandies, shell-game sharpers, yokels, gypsies, fine ladies, jockeys, kids and carnival performers on the green grass of Epsom Downs, under a smiling summer sky. The Royal Academy voted it "Picture of the Year...