Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other callers at White Court included: Admiral and Mrs. Eberle (for dinner); William C. Deniing, head of the Civil Service Commission (to discuss a successor for Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener - see WOMEN) ; Congressman William E. Hull of Illinois, shortly to sail for Buenos Aires as a member of the Pan-American Highway Commission; John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor (to discuss commercial aviation-see AERONAUTICS) ; Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent; Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget; .Secretary Hoover, recently returned from the West, to present Mr. Coolidge with an invitation to visit California; Senator George H. Moses...
...wrote Helen Hamilton Gardener, author of many charming books (including Pushed by Unseen Hands, An Unofficial Patriot, Men, Women and Gods) only woman member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission. She died a fortnight ago, aged...
...Helen Wills stepped out to despatch Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the women's finals. The court was juicy as buttered asparagus with a recent rainfall, a circumstance which boded ill for Miss Wills. Both players wore spiked shoes, but before the first set was six games old, Miss Ryan was taking off her shoes. The gallery giggled. She tried on a pair with soles of crape rubber. They skidded. She tried on a pair borrowed from William M. Johnston. The gallery tittered again. Miss Ryan removed her footwear altogether, began to scuttle about the court in stocking feet...
...mixed doubles, Miss Ryan and Gerald Patterson, sleek Australian, defeated Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup and J. B. Hawkes, to whom Helen Wills and Vincent Richards had defaulted in the semifinals...
...London, Conn.) for an invitation tournament. Among them there always moves, subdued, almost morose, a Foregone Conclusion. Last week the Conclusion won the qualifying round from the babblers with a 78. Up stepped lank Dorothy Klotz of Chicago; the Conclusion settled upon her 4 and 3. Up stepped Helen Payson of Portland, Me., a nervy novice; the Conclusion finally rested at the 18th green, 1 up. Along came pouring rain and sure-putting Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson, Kan. The Conclusion wavered before those pitiless putts that streaked for the hole over yards of squashy turf. Near the tenth...