Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is an axiom of professional tennis that Kozeluh can be beaten by any player who scores his aces twice in succession, a condition made necessary by the fact that Kozeluh is pretty sure to return the first ace. This small, brown Czechoslovakian, who punctuates his game with little whirls...
Hard to Get (First National). Although this mild anecdote about a mannequin who tries to see life as her customers see it has been told before in various forms, it has been directed lightly enough to avoid being offensive and even at times to be funny. When a handsome fellow...
Fire Fighter. Unknown is the flyer who last week saved Farmer Walter Schiffer's home at Evansville, Ind. from burning. The barn and smokehouse had burned to earth, the granary was throwing its flames at the house. Neighbors were carrying furniture and gear outdoors. Then-the flyer appeared. All...
Many Waters. It is a favorite axiom of dramatists that you never can tell what anguish has moulded the calm faces on the avenues. Monckton Hoffe, a British playwright, has for some time been demonstrating this fact in London with Many Waters, which permits you to live through the years...
In November 1846, she was born on a Kentucky farm. From her mother the girl inherited delusions of grandeur and, possibly, a syphilitic infirmity. Until the age of nine she fibbed regularly, stole money, perfumes and laces from relatives. Then "consumption of the bowels" drove her to bed, where she...