Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the first set Mrs. Mallory could still produce the flash of her square, sudden smile; after the second set she looked suddenly darker; she played the third set with dogged courage, the perspiration running down into her eyes. Helen Wills was as pale at the end of the match as she had been at the beginning. Let the people in the stands behave like maniacs. What did she care? At 17, very quietly, she had won the woman's championship of the U. S. She had now reached full growth - 142 pounds, 5 ft. 7. It was time...
...sunburned gentlemen at the courtside were betting two-to-one against Miss Wills, and the odds, at their next encounter, will probably be the same. Odds are curious equations: they are often based on the personalities of two contenders, on differences in temperament; the difference between Mlle. Lenglen and Helen Wills is probably the difference between their thyroid glands. Suzanne Lenglen is a prima donna. Every stroke, to her, is an emergency which she must meet in some sensational manner. Helen Wills goes about the business of tennis as calmly as an etcher making a design. The Frenchwoman cannot play...
...prescription for a healthy childhood. Once, in their third set, she was three games ahead of the Frenchwoman. Mlle. Lenglen had won the first set but she was obviously tiring; the little moons were ominous. She went to the side lines and asked for a glass of brandy. Helen Wills lost the match. She would not, matching drink for drink, implore the gods of a strange land. In the clubhouse the King of Sweden tapped her on the shoulder. "You played nobly," he said...
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit! Last year every girl had in her wardrobe a jaunty little toque called "The Helen Wills." This year, despite the fashionableness of those big hats that make plain girls pretty and conceal the looks of pretty girls, so that it is equal for every one, Helen Wills retains the chapeau of which she is godmother. Her own mother, the handsome woman who warned off the Panama, is her "best friend." They go to luncheons and fêtes and their hairdresser together; together they receive the adulation of the public...
...Helen Wills was never excited about committee receptions and tugboats filled with flowers. Indeed, she has just begun to dislike them. That was why the exclamation of the youth on the pier marked off a cycle; it reminded her how delightful it is to be a private citizen and-just sometimes-to be recognized. She was a very different person, this amused woman in the satin traveling suit by Callot, with her just-inspected trunks packed with the dreams of Patou, from the pig-tailed girl in white duck, who played on Long Island five years...