Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a big grass-stain on his white flanneled knee, William Tilden, champion of the world, limped over to the umpire's stand and wiped Bis bleak face with a towel. It was the third set and thirteenth game of his match against Rene Lacoste, at Germantown, and he was a game behind...
...accosted by a peddler. Rolling her rheumy eyes in coy alarm, she listened while the man attempted to persuade her that she needed a new pipe. When he fell silent she produced from her bosom a wooden object, notched, smoke-blackened, evil, stuffed it with tobacco, applied a match, puffed miasma into the peddler's face. She had smoked this pipe, she declared, for 65 years...
...Clarence and Avondale, before he contracted influenza and died at Sandringham (1892). He, the eldest son of Edward and Alexandra (then Prince and Princess of Wales) was heir presumptive to the British Crown. Moreover his betrothal to Princess Mary of Teck had been announced and touted as a love match...
...constructing an opera about the theme of a U. S. football match...
Recently music lovers and joyous undergraduates alike, were pleased at the news that Arthur Honegger, famed modern French composer, is constructing an opera about the theme of a U. S. football match. He has already done a "symphonic movement" representing a locomotive, "Pacific 231." Last week Herbert M. Johnson, manager of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, landed from Italy in Manhattan, announced that Mary Garden "is tremendously enthusiastic over the potentialities of still another new opera Judith which is to be her piece de resistance in the coming season,"- the Judith of Arthur Honegger...