Word: lefthandedness
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¶ Marjorie Sachs, 20 and lefthanded, daughter of Professor Paul Joseph Sachs of Harvard University: the Women's National Indoor Tennis Championship; at Brookline, Mass. Her name was not seeded in the draw. In the final against Sarah Palfrey, a more-to-be-feared player than her sister Mianne...
(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.