Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of the stock player, though enjoyable, is strenuous; so strenuous, in fact, that if we didn't believe that we were contributing to what we consider the highest of arts, I doubt whether most of us would continue the grind. Our system of presenting a play for only a week, usually, and then giving another almost immediately, allows but four or five days to learn a completely new role sometimes as long as 30,000 words...
...case, when the Giants meet the Senators the World Series may be decided by managerial skill. Next week's will be the first World Series since 1906-when the Chicago White Sox under Fielder Jones beat the Chicago Cubs under Frank Chance-between two teams with player-managers...
Married, Theodore Lightner, 40, contract bridge expert, partner of Ely Culbertson; and one Mary Patricia Smith, 25, bridge player; in London...
...smiling, chatted for ten minutes, while Perry went to change his flannels for ducks that would flap less in the wind. With a crowd to watch him, Perry, like Borotra, gives an impression of being debonair, lighthearted, only incidentally concerned with winning. In reality, even more than most crack players, he is deadly serious about tennis. Determined to win one important championship in 1933, he had trained a whole year for last week's final. Crawford, despite his sturdy appearance, was last week suffering from the poor condition which has been widespread among top tennis players...
Encouraged to team together by Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain of this year's U. S. Davis Cup team, Lott & Stoefen proved one thing by their victory last week: that Chicago's hairy, hard-bitten George Martin Lott Jr. is the best doubles player in the U. S., if not in the 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...