Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to the U. S. in 1927 because a Scottish pedagog told him it was cheap and had good Negro preparatory schools. His greatest handicap at Virginia's Hampton Institute (for Negroes) was his ignorance of English. Baffled by Bantu, Hampton professors could not help him much. But when he departed after four years a classmate said, "A noble person goes on his way, conscious of his nobility...
...prop his broken arm to the hints of dire plotting on the part of U. S. correspondents-hints that no other French official could substantiate. And sympathy is an emotion that French Deputies find hard to sustain for more than an hour. Flandin had referred directly to his physical handicap, to the secret rage of his opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable of saving the country. Furthermore he had made no answer at all to definite questions from the opposition early in the afternoon. Two weeks of financial panic had brought forth nothing more...
...National Golf & Tennis Club, Miss Wethered proved that she was thoroughly off her game by shooting a 78, which gave her and Johnny Dawson an 18-hole match-play tie against Gene Sarazen and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. Two days later Miss Wethered and Mrs. Vare, with a handicap of six strokes, lost to Sarazen and Jess Sweetser...
Said President Frick: "I am quite impressed ... I see no handicap to the players ... I'm not sure that the attendance is due to the novelty ... I believe we will have more...
...Secretary of War. The General's Son Frederick was not too social to be an ardent American Legionary up to the time of his death two winters ago. Young Fred Alger Jr. took to horses and polo, owns Azucar, the gelding that won the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in California this winter (TIME, March...