Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reynolds had accustomed her. Under the bleak gaze of ten gate-guarding cops, 160 servants, two firemen and some 15 dinner-jacketed plainclothesmen who mingled but did not fraternize, about 300 guests jammed for warmth (evening temperature: 48°) into two satin-draped tents pitched on Marianne's lawn. They guzzled 200 bottles of pink champagne (price: $11 a fifth) and torrents of other beverages, ate their way through flocks of guinea hens and a whole salmon (length: I yd.), gaped at one buffet display featuring a woolly lamb surrounded by genuine lamb chops. The swan-song theme...
...House." Kyes and Stevens crossed the Potomac, joined the still-cerebrating Meeting No. 5, which was now augmented by Presidential Chief of Staff Sherman Adams and others. While the conferees in the Cabinet Room sweated over their draft, President Eisenhower was practicing pitch shots on the nearby White House lawn. When Meeting No. 6 had finished its labors, it found Ike in his second-floor study and brought him the statement. The President strengthened the language in one spot, gave it his "100% approval...
Pierre Etchebaster was a court tennis champion when Bill Tilden reigned as lawn tennis champion, when Bobby Jones was scoring his grand slam in golf, when Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey were fighting for the heavyweight crown, and when Babe Ruth was slamming homers for the Yankees. Today, all the other heroes of the Golden Age of Sport are long since retired, and many are dead. Little (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) Pierre Etchebaster is not only very much alive; he is still the champion of one of the most intricate, endurance-demanding games in the world. Last week...
...Tennis Partner. Rastovorov talked good English, wore expensive American or British suits, sport jackets and slacks. Almost every day, he turned up at the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club, nattily dressed in white shorts. He played a good game, and among his frequent partners were high-ranking U.S. and Allied diplomats and military men. Everybody knew him as "George." Some asked the amiable George home for dinner. "He was a good drinker and a good eater," said one of his hosts. "But he never talked politics. Not a word." What he did talk about was music (he liked the moderns), sports...
Tony Trabort, America's No. 1 tennis player, was humiliated yesterday by the balding John Bromwhich in the second round of the Australian national championships. Australian tennis writers immediately forecast an investigation by the Lawn Tennis Assoc. of Australia...