Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next week, at Boston, Australia and France will meet in the final round, the winner to challenge the U. S., present holder of the Cup. The Australian menace is felt to be more deadly than the French. The latter, winners of the European Zone tests, landed in Manhattan last week in the persons of Réné LaCoste, Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon and Alain J. Gerbault (famed rather for crossing the Atlantic last Summer alone in a small sail boat, than for his tennis...
...Russia is determined to have the concessions in the five Northern Persian departments which were controlled by Russian interests before the war. An Armenian who is a Russian subject and the holder of a large interest in these pre-war concessions sold his interests to English investors. At the same time the Sinclair interests have practically tied up the Persian Government in a new concession in the same district. Russia, however, refuses to recognize either of these concessions as valid and is demanding that the rights be given her. And certainly she appears to be in the strongest position...
...most important award in the field of architecture in the U. S., the Paris Prize of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, was won by Harry Kurt Bieg, 24, student of the Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago; S. R. Moore of Columbia University was second. The prize constitutes the holder the guest of the French Government for two and a half years at the École des Beaux Arts. The Architects' Association also provides $3,000 for living and traveling expenses during the period...
...political writer distinguished between the brothers Bryan by saying that William Jennings has been an office seeker and Charles Wayland an office holder...
...punches and one from Frush caught "Gene" Criqui, his face already bloody and his eyes staring, on the jaw and he was counted out. After the fight, Danny Frush announced that he would sail to the U. S. and contest the world's featherweight championship with the present holder of the title, Johnny Dundee, who introduced him to astronomy in the ninth round of a fight which took place in 1922. The vanquished said, when interviewed at "his modest Montmartre mansion": "I am through. . . . No more fighting for me. . . . Gene Criqui can't bite any more sawdust...