Word: lefthandedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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(3 of 4) to duel, swords or pistols as they pleased. In declining such a challenge M. de Casagnac, himself no mean swordsman, said: "M. Clemenceau is probably the greatest swordsman in the world. He is also lefthanded, which gives him a tremendous advantage. Then, too, he is a skilled...
A lean-faced Chicago University student and a round-faced Stanford one stepped to tennis fame at Brookline, Mass. They won the national doubles championship from a field which included the Tilden-Hunter team, oldtime champions, and the Van Ryn-Allison team, Wimbledon ("world's") champions. Round-faced John Hope...
Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right...
*Lefthanded Leonardo often rubbed his pigments with his curiously burned right thumb.
Last Saturday, when the Crusaders had Dobens, a southpaw in the box, Sullivan, a left-handed batter, was placed in the lineup to add to the team's strength at bat. He went in for Donaghy at short, while the latter's ability both at the plate and in the...