Word: meldon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white flannel trouserings, shirted with linen, shod with spikes, a tall, tanned, hirsute nobleman bounded about a tennis court in Vienna. He was Count Ludwig Salm-Hoogstraten, playing K. A. Meldon of Ireland in the Davis Cup Tournament. Undaunted by losing the first two sets, 8-10, 4-6, the Count stroked his ball with reckless brilliance, accompanying every stroke with a volley of rough pleasantries. When Herr Quidenius, President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, arrived, late, flustered, to take his seat, the Count implored him to leave. "Why must you come to spoil my luck?" he yelled. Herr...
...GREAT GRANDMOTHER?G. A. Birmingham?Bobbs Merrill ($2.00). It isn't as good as Spanish Gold or Lalage's Trovers. Nor does the inimitable J. J. Meldon appear in it? though one of the principal characters, an Irish solicitor named Royce, bears a pleasant family resemblance to him in speech and ways. But, nevertheless, this slight and smiling tale of the adventures of Basil Price, private secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream...