Word: normane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Radford Abbet, Jr., George Augustus Barnard, 3rd, Robert Adams Bastille, Richard Milton Bloch, John Lodge Cady, Robert Manley Chase, Francis Lester Dawson, Henry Hinckley Dearing, Jr., Emil Ludwig Ebert, Norman Clifford Farnlof, John Reed Friar, Robert Loring Glass...
Earlier last week Sir Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association, had announced that the team (all eligible for war service) had been instructed to return home at once. But Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman did not fall in with Sir Norman's plans. He and his teammates were eager for one last fling at tennis before returning to their regiments. Picking up a telephone, Captain Hopman spoke to authorities Down Under, received permission to remain in the U. S.' for the National matches...
...August 1914, as German troops were slogging through Belgium, the eyes of the sport world focused for a moment on a tennis court at Forest Hills, N. Y. There, in what was probably the most dramatic tennis match ever played, Australasian Tennists Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, on the eve of joining their British regiments, captured the Davis Cup from U. S. Tennists R. Norris Williams, Maurice McLoughlin and Tom Bundy...
Last week, with Norman Brookes (now Sir Norman because of "distinguished service to the Empire") looking on,* a new generation of Davis Cuppers from Down Under challenged a new generation of U. S. Davis Cuppers in a war-clouded spectacle that promised to be as dramatic as the one 25 years ago. In the stands at the Merion Cricket Club at Haverford, Pa., grave-faced tennis fans gathered for the opening matches of the threeday, best-of-five series, wondered if this was to be the last Davis Cup contest they would ever see. German troops were already slogging through...
...Four members-a Quaker, a Pacifist, a Laborite, an independent Laborite-walked out the door that signified they were voting against the measure; 457 members walked out on the Government side. Politically, Great Britain was ready for war. The King put his hand to the measure in the traditional Norman phrase: "Le roy le veult...