Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen Wills defeated her California neighbor and acquaintance, Helen Jacobs, 6-1, 6-2. Fifteen thousand people watched Miss Jacobs rush about the court, applauded with chilling politeness her brilliant recoveries. With no more enthusiasm did they greet the cold, feline accuracy of the Wills game. Helen Wills knows that the best Jacobs shot is a cross-court backhand. Rarely was Helen Jacobs able to use it. There was no drama as once there had been when Miss Wills, winning, was suddenly unnerved, defeated by the swarthy Suzanne Lenglen, who found new strength and boldness by drinking a glass...
...went to a dinner where the Prince of Wales, introducing him, said: "The General describes himself as a stranger. He just told me at dinner he was so strange that when he took his seat at the table and asked his neighbor's name the latter replied, 'I am Jellicoe.'"* General Dawes grinned and puffed his hubblebubble pipe (christened by the British press "Old Underslung"). Edward of Wales tactfully produced a pipe from his own coattails, borrowed some of the Dawesian tobacco...
...eyes of the People of the U. S. are turned longingly towards Canada and her gigantic unexplored natural resources and their hearts are filled with envy and covetousness, . . . after terrific economic pressure our neighbor now plans the actual conquest of Canada, and waits but the hour to strike...
...village of Palmagyu, Rumania, in the Transylvanian Alps, peasants stood in idle groups last week and talked in proverbs of the devil and money. Had they not just seen what the money devil could do to a strong man? Ion Gerghuta, their neighbor and a thrifty farmer, had come back from the town of Kronstadt with his crop money?...
...doctrine is followed out think of what the country will become. No one will know whether his next door neighbor is what he is thought to be or not. No one will speak to anyone else, unless a proper introduction is made, and unless both parties are on the same social plane...