Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King George, with Queen Mary, postponed their arrival at an important cricket match last week long enough to "open" a new wing in the big modern-and-foreign galleries at the National Gallery of Modern Art, known as the Tate Galleryš over by the Thames riverbank. There they greeted the donor of the new galleries, Sir Joseph Duveen, merchandizer of Art to U. S. and other millionaires...
...sits down to lunch, when he strolls in the wake of his drives, his face relaxes into large curves of good nature. Thus he looked when he arrived, half an hour late, at the St. George's Hill Club, Weybridge, England, to play the second half of a match with Abe Mitchell for a prize of ?500.* He was at that point four holes behind...
...largest official stake ever offered for a professional golf match...
...evenly, staccato voices in their tails urging their legs to greater labor. Then open water began to show. There was a scorpion's length of it between the two when Cornell-her eight gigantic hearties bursting from a last effort which her slightly lighter California guests could not match-shot across the line, winner of a crew race that promised brave things for Cornell later on at the intercollegiate races on the Hudson...
...only to have it called out, and on these occasions Mlle. Lenglen sometimes pointed out to the referee that she wished her friend to have the point. In one unfortunate game two of Suzanne's drives hit the net cord. Miss Browne won this game. The rest, and the match, Mlle. Lenglen took, 6-1, 6-0?the women's international hard court championship...