Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the ranking committee of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association announced these preliminary lists last week, it was the seventh time that Helen Wills Moody -unranked last year because of "insufficient data"-had been No. 1 woman player in the U. S. Writing in Tennis, Mary K. Browne, women's tennis champion from 1912 to 1914 (runner up for women's golf championship in 1924), suggested a way to put her lower on the list: "Girls, do you want to defeat Helen Wills Moody? She is the Tilden and Kozeluh of women's tennis. You must...
...forth upon the world from Newburyport. He was Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, 34, a hard-boiled red-headed Irishman with close-set eyes, a screwed-up mouth and a pancake felt hat pushed down over his forehead. Onetime sailor roustabout, he started to erect a filling station on his lawn in contemptuous regard of a city zoning law. He protested at the City Hall and, having "hung one on the the Mayor's jaw," was sentenced to 60 days in the local jail. From then on he began to act like the reincarnation of "Lord" Timothy. Also, turning write addressed...
...conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned out to see rough-&-ready justice done. They strung up the blackamoor, blinded by bandages, to a tree on the court house lawn. After 20 min. he was cut down, taken to a vacant lot, saturated with gasoline, set afire. Maryland, which has lynched 13 Negroes and one White in the past 45 years, had enjoyed a clean record since...
...Interior Wilbur, a regular "Hoover-baller." For the first time it was revealed that Hoover-ball is a game, specially invented, played with a special lightweight medicine ball (6 lb.) over a high net on tennis courts. Four such courts are marked out on the White House lawn, moved frequently to keep from wearing out the grass. Excerpts: "When the setup is just what it should be the game is rapid. Every player is constantly tense. ... A star member is Dr. Wilbur. He has a peculiar advantage because of altitude (6 ft. 4 in.). . . . Justice Stone is the strong...
...Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps put on her ocelot coat and went out on the lawn of her estate at Middletown, R.I. to bestow the prize (a live turkey) for a charity treasure hunt; to squeal in glee with 500 other socialites while a horde of urchins from Middletown, Newport and neighboring villages chased and caught two small, frightened, buttered pigs...