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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earned Income Deduction. 25% of tax (no change). All income under $5,000 net is "earned" (no change). Maximum income which may be classed as earned $20,000 (formerly...
...linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked up her racquet, and faced once more the girl in the cotton dress the other side of the net...
...cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game...
...aced twice by the small Frenchman, whose face showed all too clearly his partiality for the vices that infect his country and capital city. Richards took the next three games. Ah, that was better! A clean-living American would yield to no such opponent. Richards was at the net now, was volleying crisp shots to right and left. He made nine service aces in the first set. But a series of lucky placements by LaCoste, and the evident willingness of the Frenchman to spend all his reduced vitality in a desperate effort at the start, deprived...
Tilden v. Borotra. Tilden's gaunt features were sharp as a woodcut. Clearly he was out to avenge Richards' defeat. "Play," called the umpire. Borotra pulled on his little "Blue Devil" cap and ran to the baseline. Then he ran to the net. Then he ran to the baseline. He was everywhere at once, returning the champion's perfect lobs, the champion's fierce drives, the champion's terrific smashes and cannonball serves with incredible accuracy and pace. The first set went to deuce, dragged on and on. The gallery smiled. Tilden knew what...