Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performed this transmorphosis is extremely modest. Irvin S. Cobb, famed humorist, described him by saying: "He likes double- breasted sack coats, large brunette cigars, his friends, chocolate bonbons, his family, the Grand Canyon, two cups of coffee for breakfast, and rhododendrons on his front lawn...
Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten: "I announced that I expect to represent Austria in the lawn tennis competition for the Olympic Games this Summer. I left Paris for the Riviera, having entered the Nice and Cannes tournaments, where: said I would be paired with Vincent Richards in the doubles...
...Baby daughter is adopted by State Governor and brought up respectable. Years pass. Mother comes out. Mother seeks baby daughter. Baby daughter is having coming out party at very gubernatorial mansion. Mother gets by the butlers. Governor persuades mother: "She must not know." Mother agrees and goes out on lawn to commit suicide. Daughter and fiance bring her around. Fiancé marries daughter anyway...
There promises to develop a literature-lawn tennis controversy which will live long in literary and sporting annals. The interesting point, of course, and the one which will never be proved is the attitude magazine editors might take toward Mr. Tilden's fiction if he should leave the courts permanently in favor of literature...
Coincident with the action of the lawn tennis officials, word came from the Olympic Committee that no athlete competing will be allowed to record for the press the experiences of the American team. Thus far no literary pole vaulters have threatened in righteous indignation to forsake their poles for their pens...