Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest of Spaniards in matters of sport follows the King. Therefore, last week, the presence of King Alfonso at Wimbledon was almost equivalent to a royal cheering section f r the great Spanish net star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita...
They played the first set without either young woman ever coming within 20 feet of the net. Miss Wills, smashing like clockwork, won 6-2. She seemed to have regained and even surpassed the magnificent speed and rallying power which she possessed before her operation for appendicitis...
During the second set Señorita de Alvarez suddenly switched from backcourt play to a furious storming of the net which had about it the flavor of a battle cry: "For King and Country!" Soon Miss Wills had lost the third game, the fourth, the sixth, the seventh. Señorita de Alvarez led by one game and fairly scintillated pleasure. Throughout she had shown the full gamut of emotion whenever a point went for or against her. Europeans in the gallery warmed to approval of her frank spontaneity. Anglo-Saxons beamed pridefully upon the correct, emotionless, orthodox sportswomanship...
...June 30, 1917, and might be, thought the I. C. C., somewhat less than the 1927 valuation. It would be easy to figure the' difference. Newspaper financial writers hastily calculated that the N. Y. C. was worth today $1,285,438,000. Last year the system's net income from operating trains (income from stock and land investments is figured separately) was $72,158,000-less than 6% of the estimated 1927 valuation. Dividend. New York Central directors last week announced a quarterly dividend of 2%. The annual dividend had been 1%; it is now 8%. Thus...
...Algernon Cecil-G. Bell & Sons, London (15? net...