Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels, five days later, the 1940 Olympic Games were considered as good as canceled when Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that if the Games cannot be held in Finland, as scheduled, they will not be held at all. Originally the 1940 Olympics were to have been held in Japan, were switched to Finland because of the war in Eastern Asia (TIME, July...
...filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving the hind legs." Back in the U. S. after almost three years of voluntary exile in London was William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, fresh from tennis triumphs over Henri Cochet and Donald Budge, at 47 planning to play professional tennis here again...
...Australian tennist has ever captured the U. S. Singles championship. Britons have-H. L. Doherty in 1903, Fred Perry in 1933-34-36. So have Frenchmen-René Lacoste in 1926-27, Henri Cochet in 1928. Nearest an Australian ever came to the U. S. title was in 1933, when steady, sturdy Jack Crawford (French, English and Australian champion that year) was nosed out of a tennis grand slam in the final...
Maurice first went to the Collège Stanislas, a strict and scholarly Catholic school with considerable social standing and a military flavor. One of his teachers was Mgr. Henri Marie Alfred Baudrillart, now Cardinal Baudrillart, who still remains one of General Gamelin's best friends. At Stanislas, methodical Maurice further disciplined his mind by memorizing ten lines of prose at night (because it was harder than poetry) and reading a book of philosophy a week. After Stanislas he entered St. Cyr, French West Point, where in 1893 he finished first in a class...
...James Basilica that morning they had received Holy Communion. In the Wind sor Hotel they ate breakfast, signed marriage registers. On the baseball field they heard a sermon by Most Rev. George's Gauthier, Archbishop-Coadjutor of Montreal. A dynamic, youngish priest whom they all knew, Father Henri Roy, celebrated a nuptial mass after 105 priests made the couples men and wives. Then, in 105 automobiles lent by General Motors of Canada, Ltd., the couples drove to St. Helen's Island, where they ate with 3,000 friends and relations, were given rosaries, crucifixes and photographs of Pope...