Word: helene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose a house out of its way as it crawled, half-submerged, to safety, dragging telephone poles by their fallen wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that consumed an entire city block. Mrs. Helen E. Lewis, Republican nominee for Connecticut Secretary of State, was drowned with her husband when their island cottage at Stony Creek was swept away...
Women's Final. On the distaff side, the semi-final between Alice Marble (seeded second to Helen Jacobs) and crafty Sarah Palfrey Fabyan made up for the lacklustre men's matches. Playing her usual powerful but erratic game, onetime Champion Marble twice came within a point of defeat before taking the match, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5. Next day, playing against Nancye Wynne, 21-year-old Melbourne stenographer who had beaten California's Dorothy Bundy on her way to the final, Alice Marble needed just 22 minutes to win the championship...
...held by the U. S., the coffers of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association swell some $50,000 from gate receipts of the Interzone Final and Challenge Round, always played in the country defending the Cup. This year the tennis association got out an extra coffer when Helen Wills Moody decided to try for a comeback in international tennis. A meeting between Helen Moody and Helen Jacobs in the U. S. championship would add at least $25,000 to the till. Thus the U. S. L. T. A. was very glad to pay Mrs. Moody's expenses to Europe...
Last week Helen Wills Moody did an unusual thing. Finding that she was unable, because of neuritis, to take part in the U. S. championship next week, Mrs. Moody sent the U. S. L. T. A. a check for $1,309.45, a refund in toto for her expenses abroad-apparently as indemnity for its loss of her as a box-office attraction at Forest Hills. Bewildered by such a Simon-pure amateur spirit, the U. S. L. T. A. decided to take it up as new business at their next meeting...
...door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been satisfactory only the first six months, he insisted on references to cover that period. When the servant problem got bad enough, Ruth and Helen really came to believe in evil jinn...