Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watched the men's matches. Leaping, smashing, ricocheting Henri Cochet, new champion of France, beat Vincent Richards in five sets, just as he did in Paris three weeks ago, adding new force to the prophesy that France will win the Davis cup this year. Nobody cared. They wanted to see Mlle. Lenglen, actually applauded her when she strolled off the court with Borotra after having defeated a young Englishman and his lady. Borotra told the press that rheumatism in Mlle. Lenglen's neck and shoulders kept her from sleeping. "She is very ill ... she cries all the time...
...Paris Novelist Henri Barbusse, winner of the Prix Goncourt with his pen and the Croix de Guerre with his sword, occupies a position unique and anomalous. He is always bringing some unpleasant fact to light, and his genius is always just sufficient to make the expose nauseatingly unforgettable. With such a man what is to be done? He was among the first to turn up to view the festering underside of Glory in his War novel Le Feu (Under...
...basis of Cervantes' Don Quixote, cut and pieced by librettist Henri Cain, Jules Massenet wrote an opera, wrote it seeing Feodor Chaliapin, big Russian bass, craftiest of impersonators, as the noble moulting Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Baron, Duke and Knight of the Rueful Countenance...
Opening his recital at Jordan Hall last evening with "Promesse de mon avenir" (from 'Le Roi de Lahore' by Massenet), Mr. Henri Marcoux, baritone, impressed his audience at once with his mellow charm and confident vigor. As one would expect of such a finished singer, a protege of Mr. Isadore Braggiotti, there was no trace of diffident restraint, and by the time that M. Marcoux had concluded the second number of the next group he revealed the richness and subtle nuances of his unusual voice and stirred more than polite enthusiasm...
...always there when I need him. Critics who saw us play today (we defeated Mile. Neveu and Capt. Christie in two love sets, and then Miss Evelyn Woods and Mr. Caulfield, 6-0, 6-1) said that they thought we would give Suzanne and the Baron [Baron Henri de Morpurgo, Italian champion] a run for their money, if we meet in the finals...