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Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit! Last year every girl had in her wardrobe a jaunty little toque called "The Helen Wills." This year, despite the fashionableness of those big hats that make plain girls pretty and conceal the looks of pretty girls, so that it is equal for every one, Helen Wills retains the chapeau of which she is godmother. Her own mother, the handsome woman who warned off the Panama, is her "best friend." They go to luncheons and fêtes and their hairdresser together; together they receive the adulation of the public...
Sunday. Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.* But for the moment it is a trifle depressing. Suzanne and the Baron came down like wolves on the fold and whipped us to a standstill, 6-1, 6-2. It was a terrific, savage match. We played our best, every stroke. The reporters said C. F. looked like Jack Dempsey smashing away at the net with his jaw way out. And that I was pale with concentration. Perhaps I was foolish to change from driving to lobbing against Suzanne, but it seemed best at the time. She was like a silk whirlwind...
...retort, the eloquent argument,--all these are interesting as they occur from day to day, the victories when they come, the unmerited defeats, lend a constant zest to life and are pleasant to remember, for even of defeats the lawyer finds the prophecy true "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit...
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