Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spot of bare earth about as big as a monocle, in the surface of a grass tennis court, in Orange, N. J., William T. Tilden II, National Lawn Tennis Champion, glared. There were many other such spots in the court, which was not a very good one. During the course of his game, Champion Tilden glared at most of them. Sometimes, indeed, he stopped short and addressed them in terms that involved the names of prominent Biblical characters. The spectators pitied Champion Tilden's trouble with the spots, which assuredly gave an abominable twist to many of the balls...
...asked for a fleet of Pullman cars. Cordell Hull, onetime Democratic National Chairman, Rhea County's representative in Congress, was requested to beg a village of tents from the War Department. In the court house, radio broadcasting apparatus was set up, with loud speakers out on the lawn and Instructor Scopes, ordinarily a quiet and reasonable young man, declared that he was "ready to fight and, if need be, to die" for a right whose national champion he never expected...
...force met together for a sing-song and smoker. They were mostly young men, dapper but demure. A fake, the Phonofilm Corporation? Why, they told the reporter, President Coolidge himself knew of it. Sure enough, the investigator beheld a phonofilm of the sharp-faced President, on the White House lawn, reading a speech...
Lord Balfour consoled England recently for the loss of its many international athletic trophies in a manner which does credit to traditional British sportsmanship. In a debate with the editor of the National Review on the question "Does golf do more harm than good?" Lord Balfour expatiated on lawn tennis, which he enjoys, but he also took advantage of the occasion to make it plain that England should feel no tragedy in the passing of athletic laurels to other countries...
...Coolidge cat, scratched by an embattled squirrel on the White House lawn, was a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital. Rob Roy, Mrs. Coolidge's white collie, was sent to the same hospital for skin treatment...