Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Margaret, the eldest, used to be the best. Then Elizabeth learned to beat her. Mianne was next in line, but for some reason Sarah, two years younger, made headway faster. Helen Wills played Sarah last summer at the Essex County Club Tournament and said afterward: "She is the best girl player of her age I ever saw." Mianne's main trouble was that she had no confidence in her backhand, became nervous at the wrong moments. Last week in the finals of the Women's National Indoor Singles Championship, Mianne dropped five games to Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, then rallied...
There are six Palfreys playing tennis, five of them girls. After Margaret, Elizabeth, Mianne and Sarah come Joanna and little John. Once their father, John Gorham Palfrey, Boston lawyer, good friend of the late Poetess Amy Lowell, asked them if they wanted a tennis court...
Triumphantly the Dottoressa entered the U. S. in 1913. She was the guest of the Bells, met President Wilson's daughter Margaret, made her way as far West as Chicago...
...postponement of his match until this afternoon, when he was forced to remain here over the weekend because of his participation in the indoor mixed doubles championship tourney. After he and Miss Mianne Palfrey had fought their way to the finals, they were vanquished Saturday, losing to Miss Margaret Blake and Richard Harte '17 by a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 verdict...
...until from subhead and text the reader learned that "Tsaa-a" is the cry of the buyer of pigs in the great basal U. S. industry of Packing, which the article expounded, haunch, paunch and squeal, with impressionistic photographs of the Chicago stockyards in action by able staff photographer Margaret Bourke-White...