Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to keep her comfortable. Now, at 63, she is indisputably the most valuable performer in Hollywood. Last year 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's nation-wide poll agreed that her name was worth more at the box office than that of Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow or Mickey Mouse. Her last four pictures have earned an average of $800,000 each-far more than any other star's. She gets a salary of $4,000 a week because she is too good-natured to demand more. In 1931 she won the Cinema Academy...
...When Jean Borotra finally convinced people that he would not play singles for the French Davis Cup team this year, because he was too old (34) it became easier to see how the challenge round against England would turn out. The weak member of the French team was un doubtedly young left-handed André Merlin, fourth ranking player of France, who had impressed Cochet and Lacoste, the non-playing captain, as more determined than Christian Boussus, who ranks a notch ahead of him. If Merlin lost his matches to Perry and Austin, Borotra and Brugnon would have...
...Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon, still probably the second best doubles team in the world, beat George Patrick Hughes and H. G. N. Lee, who had been put on the British side to give Perry a rest, 6-3, 8-6, 6-2. Cochet, who had been practicing desperately since his first match, beat Austin in five sets 5-7, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. This made the score two-all and gave an irrelevant importance to the last match which everyone knew that Perry could not lose. It was this certainty-contrasted with the more amazing...
...long, knobby arms were getting set for the cannonball, he suddenly crumpled up, sprawled on the court in a dead faint. Perry jumped across the net, helped carry his opponent to the clubhouse where he was presently revived. Half an hour later, Vines came out leaning on Jean Borotra's shoulder. When a bystander yelped, "Deflated!", Borotra slapped his face...
...week would have been more remarkable if it had not happened so frequently before. In 1931, the same English team even more unexpectedly beat a U. S. side that had Sidney Wood, Wimbledon finalist, and Frank Shields, Wimbledon runner-up, in place of Vines and Allison. Last year foxy Jean Borotra won singles matches against both Vines and Allison to keep the Cup for France in the Challenge round. Explanations for last week's surprise were as numerous as they were inadequate. Most experts suggested that Vines and Allison were "over-tennised." John Tunis who goes abroad every summer...