Word: messer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Singles--J. L. Ware '30 defeated Messer (D), 8-6, 6-4; J. C. Rueter '28 defeated Burt (D.), 6-2, 6-3; A. G. Thacher Jr. '29 defeated Barber (D.), 6-0, 6-0; F. L. Herz '29 defeated Gifford...
Singles A. C. Ingraham '31 defeated Messer (D), 6-2, 6-0; W. I. Breese '31 defeated Burke (D), 6-1, 8-6, T. G. Upton '31 defeated Van Pattern (D), 6-1, 6-2, R. I. Tower '31 defeated Lass...
Doubles Breese and Ingraham defeated Messer and Burke (D), 6-0, 6-2. Upton and G. S. Greene '31 defeated Van Pattern and Dugerty...
WHEN, some three or four years ago, Donn Byrne wrote "Messer Marco Polo", people said in effect "He has written his masterpiece; he will never be able to surpass this in delicacy or in colorfulness." Last year when "Hangman's House," appeared as a best seller in the stalls people were a bit surprised. Here was a book that not only rivaled "Messer Marco Polo" on its own ground, so to speak, but had something else beside--a haunting something, intangible but with a sweet tang to it, like the smell of lavender or the earth after a rain...
...first non-love-story Donn Byrne has written, the attempt of a prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers to the earlier Byrne manner. People who remember and relish how Messer Marco Polo was drawn to the Old Man of the Mountains by white magic, for example, will have difficulty distinguishing between florid fantasy and sincere interpretation when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling, pad-padding, loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing...