Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the consistory, the Vatican let it be known that the Holy Father was canceling all public audiences and most private ones until Christmas, on the advice of his physicians. The Pope was reported suffering from shock induced by his worries over world unrest...
...when enough women took up the game to make competition exciting, Eleo (as she is known in swish circles) won the first national squash racquets championship for women. The following year, she held famed Professional Walter Kinsella, world's squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a tight score in an exhibition match. This year, at 58, white-haired, lithe Eleonora Sears is still going strong. Last week, in the Atlantic Coast squash championship (at Atlantic City), first big tournament of the season, she reached the semi-finals in a field of top-flight players, most of whom were...
...five miles off Newport. She was one of the first U. S. women to go up in a flying machine (with Claude Grahame-White in 1910), one of the first to drive an automobile, one of the first to wear breeches and ride astride. In 1909, when she was known as "the best-gowned woman in America" and her name romantically linked with that of Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Eleo caused a stir by appearing at California's swank Burlingame Country Club in "unconventional trousers," asked if she could join in the polo practice of a British international team...
...Their love," says a friend, "is the most beautiful thing I have ever known." Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier spend most of their time together, are seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a few songs that Vivien Leigh knows how to pick out c i the piano. In their repertory: The Melody in F, Banjo on My Knee, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean...
...acting job of the picture as Mammy, the sly, leather-lunged, devoted Emily Post of the O'Haras. And Vivien Leigh had not petted and pouted on the screen for five minutes before the fussy Atlanta audience was ready to underwrite Selznick's choice of the little-known English actress to be the Southern belle. Whether she spoke letter-perfect middle high Georgian, few people outside middle...