Word: longwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing their first tennis tournament on U. S. soil: the U. S. doubles championship, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, defeating Defending Champions Donald Budge & Gene Mako, who had beaten them in two previous encounters during the current season (Wimbledon semi-finals and Davis Cup interzone final); at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...
...shabby five-room cottage at Longwood, on a bleak plateau on the island, the tragi-comedy of Napoleon's exile worked itself out. He adjusted himself to it more readily than anyone else. He romped with the children, teased the pretty, high-spirited 14-year-old Betsy Balcolme, a St. Helena heiress who played tricks on him, pulled his hair, once almost killed him with one of her pranks. Making a great fuss over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops...
...Lowe from the start. He believed, or pretended to believe, that Lowe was going to kill him. Always bluffing, Napoleon drove Lowe to distraction, created parliamentary crises in London, steered his ill-assorted little company so artfully they became an efficient propaganda and espionage apparatus. Meanwhile he waddled around Longwood, recalling his great days, making the whole company work on his memoirs. Talking as much as Samuel Johnson, the imperial chatterbox spun out his pungent, cynical comments, salting his malice with sudden acts of kindness, keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle with hints of the wealth...
Opening a strenuous weekend with a dance at Longwood Towers at 8 o'clock Saturday night, the Pierian Sodality will present a concert at the same place Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock...
...Donald Budge & Gene Mako, Carolin Babcock & Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn, Alice Marble & Gene Mako: U. S. tennis championships at Men's, Women's and Mixed Doubles respectively; at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...