Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April day in 1898, with the U. S. hurrying inevitably toward war with Spain, two soldiers sat lunching in Washington's Army & Navy Club. The older, serious-faced, put a question. The younger made a laughing reply. Serious-Face spoke again. Smiling-Face stopped smiling. In a moment both heads were bent together in low-toned, tense conversation...
...Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion in 1905, repeating in 1907. Last week she was defeated in the quarter-finals by England's Joan Ridley but one moment of glory had been hers. Then she did one of the little things which all celebrities sometimes do and which, when they are discovered, add affection to the public's awareness. At the end of one day's matches she purchased a newspaper from a boy standing...
William Tatem Tilden II, 36, was defeated last week. Four games he won in the first set, only one in the second. In the third Henri Cochet was leading him 5-1. Suddenly, for a moment, returned the Tilden touch. His serves streaked into the court, changed direction when they struck, bounded far out of reach. His drives skimmed the net, his kills were invincible. But when the score was 5 to 5, Tilden's last fling was over. Valiantly he fought but Cochet took the next two games, the match...
Bobby's skinny caddy was holding the pin. At the top of it fluttered a vivid yellow Hag with 18 in black velvet figures sewed on it. Overhead the little white clouds seemed to have stopped moving for the moment. Because of a tree, Espinosa could not see Jones or the white speck that was his ball. But presently the speck rolled out from behind the tree. It had to go up over a bump in the green. Then it dropped out of Espinosa's sight. A second later it dropped out of everyone's sight. The hushed gallery burst...
Later this summer, Herr Schmeling will probably fight out the world's title inheritance with Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), the glossy, glib, unconvincing Bostonian than whom, for the moment, the U. S. can apparently produce no heavyweight less unsatisfactory...