Word: molla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman twice, with Molla Bjurstedt Mallory twice). She has won 240 cups-mostly at tennis, squash and horse-show jumping...
...title, but the boy they talked about on the way home was Welby. "Next year," they said. In the women's singles, Alice Marble breezed through with scarcely a challenge, stood off a grim Helen Jacobs in the final, to the enjoyment of practically everybody but leathery oldster Molla Mallory, who said Alice would never be a tennis player until she learns to put some spin on her forehand...
...National Girls' Championship at Forest Hills. Coolidge had just become President, Jack Dempsey was Heavyweight Champion and Babe Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year she won the U. S. Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented at Buckingham Palace in a shin-length ivory satin dress, exhibited her paintings in London, won the Wimbledon title...
...about 25? on the dollar, denying him the chance of saving any stake with which to recoup his fortune. Wall Street, feeling that Mr. Pynchon had failed with honor, was glad last week to hear an announcement: the brokerage firm of Mallory, Eisemann & Co. (Franklin I. Mallory, husband of Molla Bjurstedt and no kin of Mr. Pynchon; Alexander Eisemann, onetime head of Freed-Eisemann Radio Corp.) is henceforth to be Mallory, Pynchon & Eisemann...
...Suzanne Lenglen, after losing a set to Molla Mallory, defaulted when she developed a hacking cough. That set the pattern for the extraordinary way in which Mrs. Moody's supremacy in women's tennis, unchallenged for seven years, ended last week. In the first game of the third set, she double-faulted twice, so feebly that the crowd grew restless and Umpire Benjamin Dwight had to hold up his hand for silence. Helen Jacobs won that game and the next, from 0-30. Serving again, Mrs. Moody won one point and then lost four...