Word: gamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when enough women took up the game to make competition exciting, Eleo (as she is known in swish circles) won the first national squash racquets championship for women. The following year, she held famed Professional Walter Kinsella, world's squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a tight score in an exhibition match. This year, at 58, white-haired, lithe Eleonora Sears is still going strong. Last week, in the Atlantic Coast squash championship (at Atlantic City), first big tournament of the season, she reached the semi-finals in a field of top-flight players, most of whom were...
...Georgia Coleman, onetime (1932) Olympic champion diver, whose career was snipped short by infantile paralysis. Badly in need of an operation for a liver ailment, she was too weak to have it, too poor to pay for it. Promoters of the California's women's football championship game hoped that a third of the gate receipts (pledged to defray Georgia's operation costs) would amount to the needed...
Last week at his home in Santa Monica, next door to Norma Shearer's, Fairbanks was in bed, resting after two mild heart attacks. He had been to a football game two days before, then to dinner at his son's home. His male nurse heard the Fairbanks mastiff, Marco Polo, growling beside Fairbanks' bed, entered to find that Death, as it must to every man, had come to restless Douglas Fairbanks...
Though Clark Gable taught Vivien Leigh to play backgammon, and never won a game from her, they were not the best of friends. Director Fleming and Cinemactress Leigh differed over the interpretation of Scarlett, to which Fleming wanted to restore the "guts" he thought George Cukor had taken out of it. Vivien...
Leigh began a sparring game to preserve the Cukor conception...