Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks the omnipotent Vicar would have nothing to do with a marriage which Italians high and low rejoice to call a love match. At last Mafalda and Philip were forced to sign a long petitior in which they promised that any children that may be vouchsafed to them will be reared as strict Catholics. Behind his thick spectacles il Papa, "prisoner" of the nation whose princes must bow to him in matters spiritual, pondered well the petition. Eventually his lips formed the affirmative command of the Caesars. "Fiat!" said il Papa. "Fiat!" echoed King Vittorio, modern Caesar, in puny imitation...
Wallace Johnson, very erect, very sleek and ungraceful, leans back a little as his racquet meets the ball. He never seems particularly concerned with what he is doing. No matter how fierce his match, he always has an air of being one of the linesmen. He depends for success on his celebrated chop-stroke- a shot which he executes with the same twist of the wrist that a chef in the front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely...
...Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since no such other causes cropped up, he took his match with ease 6-4, 6-0, 6-4. Thus were the apostles of unlikelihood brought to derision...
...match, like the tragedies of some of the playwrights who preceded Shakespeare, was stretched over five acts or sets, the climax coming where it properly should ?toward the end of the third. Tilden employed a formula already made familiar to the .public in others of his superbly improvised dramas. He began with the artifice of making it appear that he was playing his regular game and that Lacoste was rising to stupendous heights. The little Frenchman, never a brilliant player, was at first so appalled to find himself facing the champion that Tilden had to retard his own strokes...
...most daring ever composed by the lean actor-dramatist. Four times Lacoste stood within a point of victory; four times, with strokes that bit like a fencer's riposte or an epigram by William Wycherly, Tilden beat him back. He took the set 8-6; ran out the match...