Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hole golf match, a good player rarely makes more than 75 shots. In a three-out-of-five-set tennis match, a player may make as many as 5,000 shots. Consequently, in tennis, luck counts for comparatively little and the better player almost always wins. Before the All-England tennis championships started at Wimbledon last fortnight, experts knew who the best players were: redhaired, lanky Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. and Germany's handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm...
...foreign policy to the apron strings of Downing Street. Last week French fiscal policy had been hitched, temporarily at least, to the apron strings of the Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, pending the arrival of Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. This nimble native of Dordogne, by far the ablest player of Basque pelota in the new Cabinet, will have his work cut out for him to get French finances in shape, but he seemed certain of broad cooperation. Under one of France's new social decrees drafted by Leon Blum and published last week by the Chautemps Cabinet...
Married. Constance Cutter Morrow, daughter of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, sister of Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; to Aubrey Niel Morgan, Welsh cricket player and Cardiff department store executive, widower of Sister Elisabeth Morrow who died in 1934; in North Haven, Me. It was in his family's home that Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh took refuge after their flight from...
This statement about "Whistling Dick" (Richard Milburn) is very much less than adequate. Milburn was a barber who worked in his father's shop on Lombard Street in Philadelphia. He was a guitar player and a marvelous whistler, and it was he who originated the melody and at least the title of Listen to the Mocking Bird. Winner only set down the melody and arranged it after it had been played and whistled and sung over to him by Milburn. Winner may have furnished most or all of the words as published, but the life of the song springs...
Last week in New York, Pitcher Hubbell walked out to the pitcher's box to try to extend his string to 25 against the Brooklyn Dodgers, as a preface to receiving a prize for being the most valuable National League player of 1936. When the game ended, Pitcher Hubbell needed the prize for consolation. Aided by able pitching from towering Van Lingle Mungo, one of Hubbell's few real rivals, Brooklyn had knocked him out of the box in the fourth inning, beaten the Giants...