Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery Act. It stands for National Ruin Association . . . [variant : National Racket Administration]. "Premier General Johnson - Wall Street partner of Barney Baruch, the broker- has declared a five-week campaign to put across the five-year plan of Premier Stalin of Russia. . . . "The Blue Eagle is a Russian fish hawk. "Why keep Capone in Atlanta? . . . Why not call him out to lead the retail branch of racketeering. "In some...
...down with strangers, made himself objectionable with vulgar greetings. Spotting a plump girl with a full plate before her, he marched to her table, snatched the plate from her, yapped: "You're too fat already. I'll eat this." He danced just once-until his partner's husband took the lady away. He thrust himself behind the bar, shoved its tender aside, loudly proclaimed that he would show the world how they mix and shake them in Louisiana. The Sands Point Bath Club is not noted for decorum on Saturday nights but Senator Long's behavior...
...Longwood. In the first set, young Frank Andrew Parker was erratic and his tall partner, Francis Xavier Shields, had to make most of the impossible gets, the titanic smashes that finally won, 13-11. Wily George Lott and willowy Lester Stoefen, smoothing out the soft spots in his game as the match wore on, concen- trated on Parker in the next two sets and won them both at 9-7. In the fourth set, Shields & Parker worked the score up to 3-all. Then Lott won his serve, Parker lost his, and Stoefen won his-for set match...
...world. Last week's doubles title was his fourth. He won in 1928 with John F. Hennessey, in 1929 and 1930 with John Hope Doeg. Saturnine, good-humored, Lott's doubles game is noteworthy for steadiness, tactical brilliance, unwillingness to be discouraged by his partner's errors-Stoefen made 80 in last week's three-hour final. Playing with John Van Ryn he won at Wimbledon in 1931. Last week's tournament was his first with Stoefen, a handsome 6-ft.-3½-in. Californian, who balances the team with cannonball serves, unplayable overhead shots...
...Paris, famed Henri Cochet, No. 1 tennist of France, finally stopped denying rumors, increasingly persistent for the last two years, that he would turn professional. His plans: a series of matches, with Martin Plaa for partner, v. William Tilden II and Bruce Barnes, late this month...