Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anybody in the U. S. with a $1.98 racquet and a pair of sneakers can find a lawn tennis game in season. But the four indoor ball-and-racquet games-court tennis, racquets, squash racquets and squash tennis-are still the exclusive pastimes of folks on the sunnier side of the railroad tracks. In all the U. S., for example, there are perhaps fewer than 500 persons who have ever taken a cut at a court tennis ball. Racquets players have been so few that one ball maker, a man named Jeffries Mailings, until his death 20 years ago, made...
...since been squeezed out there and almost everywhere else by simpler & slower squash racquets, nowadays is largely the hobby of a fairly small group of players in the Manhattan area. It is played with a green, net-covered, two-and-one-half-inch rubber ball and a ten-ounce lawn-tennis-style racquet on a 32-by-18½-ft. court. Players alternate in serving against a wall, score points only while in service...
...most important U. S. cities, usually in clubs and hotels, but often in Y. M. C. A. and lodge buildings. Favorite short-order exercise for the not too tired business man, a half-hour of squash racquets, which everybody calls squash, is equivalent to three times as much straight lawn tennis. Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active man. It has recently attracted many women players. Most notable: British Margot Lumb, who beat Tennist Helen Jacobs last fall in the women's tennis...
...black sewage. But that day the Corbetts, millions like them in 20 cities over England, carried on. Repair crews filled the craters in the streets, restored skeleton public services. Two surgeons in Southampton's hospital performed 230 major operations in seven hours. Corbett dug a trench in his lawn, kicking himself for having laid by no gasproof room for a bomby...
...Army General Evangeline Booth, said Lady Astor, was "up to the neck in the Cliveden Set," since she often comes to the estate. Franklin D. Roosevelt was once "compromised" there. During the War, when the estate was a military hospital, he came out and helped mow Cliveden's lawn. Since Bolshevists Leonid Krassin (died, 1926) and Gregory Sokolnikov (since "purged") were once entertained at Cliveden, Lady Astor thought Kremlin Set might be a more apt title for those she entertained. Other Cliveden Set members: Charles Chaplin, Will Rogers, Emma Goldman, Herbert Hoover, James Ramsay MacDonald, numerous Rhodes scholars...