Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There have been colored golf balls recently (TIME, Dec. 31). White boxing gloves were planned for Illinois. Last week, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association announced trials of a red tennis ball, said 10 possess increased visibility...
...Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
...useful he is! He digs for the grub of the June bug that eats the roots of the grass. That is why he tears up the lawn. A skunk in the front yard and a crow on the ridgepole is grass insurance...
Tennis Tycoon William Tatem Tilden II must have been pleasantly surprised that despite the ban placed upon his tennis playing activities by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association and extended last week by the International Lawn Tennis Federation, he could still play as an amateur in Russia or in Abyssinia. In the 35 principal tennis-playing countries of the world, including Cuba, Japan and Monaco, he will be considered a professional, because last summer he wrote reports of British tournaments for U. S. news-sheets...
...annual Yale-Harvard football dance will be held this year on Friday, November 23, at the New Haven Lawn Club...