Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McGee was a very complicated and very hard thug, whose cigars were of the definite variety. Both were Mr. Brendel. Both became involved with Miss Dorsay, calling her "Mees Yulee", or "that skoit" antiphonally. Both finally came to blows, and Mr. Brendel wrestled with himself all over the front lawn, threatened himself with a fake revover, and sent himself off to justice, leaving himself to enjoy Fill's company undistrubed...
...Harvard Freshman baseball team is to play Andover Academy at Andover this afternoon. Coach Davison has four pitchers at his disposal. De Give, Hayes, Lawn, and Strong. De Give will probably start...
...shown good fielding and plenty of batting punch. Harvard Andover J. Ware, c.f. s.s., Woodlock Lee, l.f. 2b., Darling N. Ware, s.s. r.f., Howard Lupien, r.f. 3b., Meighen Smith, 2b. lb., Foreman Beale, 3b. l.f., Raynor Murphy, lb. c.f., King Hines, c. c., O'Neil De Give, Hayes, Lawn or Strong. p p. Smith
William Tatem Tilden II had not played Vincent Richards for five years because Richards was a professional and the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association would not countenance official matches between pros and amateurs. But after Tilden turned pro himself (TIME, Jan. 12) a match between them loomed. Shrewdly Promoter Jack Curley, tsar of U. S. professional tennis, built up for this match a lusty Irish ballyhoo startling in tennis* although routine in Mr. Curley's boxing and wrestling enterprises. He had the rivals issue derisive statements about each other which neither would under any circumstances have uttered. Curley further...
...great annoyance to the S. 0. S. When extra long piles were needed for piers, they were sent over?sawed in pieces to fit between a ship's bulkheads. General Pershing had to order a halt on such nonessentials as "bath bricks, bath tubs, bookcases, cuspidors, floor wax, stepladders, lawn mowers, sickles, stools and window shades." Winter clothing for troops did not arrive until long after the first snows...