Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First they decide to use one plot, then the other. Then it seemed a good idea to combine the two into one hybrid performance. Now they think they will fool every body and use neither of them. It is all very mysterious...
...scene of one play is laid in Italy, of the other in Russia. If the hybrid version is used, it will probably be in Asia Minor...
National Doubles. For the first time in history the national doubles title is a hybrid. It was won by William T. Tilden, 2nd, and Brian I. C. Norton, of South Africa. They played a former Davis Cup pair in the finals, R. Norris Williams, 2nd., and Watson M. Washburn, and won only after the most desperate five-set match at 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. The individual brilliance of Tilden dominated the court, with the occasional flashes of Williams and the steadiness of Norton attracting less consistent attention. After the first two sets the playing...
Percy Hammond: " Very good in spots and rather bad in others . . . an interesting hybrid...
...others, it is heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward the light of more serious endeavor! KEITH MACKAYR...