Word: gut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashion elsewhere, partly because famed Norman Brookes, who became head of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association after he retired from active tournament competition, continued to prefer them. Australia's Adrian Quist and Donald Turnbull used the same kind. Unlike U. S. players who have their bats strung, with gut so fine that it never lasts more than one day, often less than a set, Champion Crawford uses "any kind" of gut, thick, durable and oldfashioned, has his racquets restrung as many times...
...High Table only a year since. The President was a guest, and his entrance aroused in the dining hall a hush,--no, never a stare . . . in Lowell House. But soon there was amusement, a litter, and as the President came abreast James Russell Lowell's portrait, a hearty, Teutonic, gut-wrenching laugh exploded. The President heard, turned, and pointed calmly toward the door; Phantom stopped, turned, made gravely for the door, an obedient...
...warn you for making anything public, or for notifying the police, child is in gut care...
...lively girl named Mary Ewing Outerbridge paid a visit to Bermuda. There British Army officers taught her a game which was becoming a polite fad in England. When she returned to the U. S., Mary Outerbridge brought with her a net suitable for minnow-fishing, several strange-looking, gut-strung bats and a rule book. She had her net pegged up on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket & Baseball Club, set about teaching her family how to play tennis. Seven years later, when the game was being played at 33 U. S. clubs, her brother, Eugenius H. Outerbridge, helped...
Died. Mrs. Albert Forster's gut-joined twin daughters, one 17 days, the other 23 days after birth and the operation which cut their bond (TIME, July 20); from failing to gain strength to endure operations which might have made their body outlets natural and useful; in Baltimore's Mercy Hospital...