Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came the first day when 16-year-old Herb Flam (TIME, Aug. 13) began skidding on the smooth turf, shook off his shoes and blasted Argentina's No. 2 player, Heraldo Weiss off the court. There's a coming Davis Cupper, said wise old tongues. Next day, Lieut. Gardnar Mulloy was an upset victim, succumbing to Major Frank Guernsey, a pint-size fighter pilot who prefers golf to tennis...
...looking into the gold-digging depths of Estelle's grey eyes. Then he drove her to his old brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, and showed her the roulette table prettily concealed behind the Victorian knickknacks. Estelle, "wearing a décolletage which . . . did a good deal for a roulette player's perspective," shortly became the principal attraction of debonair J. Bates Upham's fashionable gambling joint...
...callus at the base of the left little finger indicates a stone cutter, who braces his chisel with his little finger. Other characteristic calluses: the house painter's on the front of both shins where he leans on his ladder ; the trumpet or tuba player's near the tip of the right little finger, where the finger presses against a small hook to steady the instrument; the writer's (or student's or bookkeeper's) on the side of the right middle finger; the French horn player's in the corresponding spot...
...Some telltale sores: the violin player's on the left side of the jaw; the optical glass molder's burn sores and scars on knuckles and arms ; milkers' nodules which farmers sometimes get on their hands...
...Money Player. Politicians soon learned to respect her: she could drink, battle, cuss and connive with the best of them, outspend practically all of them. Uvalde's white-browed John Nance Garner became her great & good friend-in & out of smoke-filled rooms, they understood each other. She made quadrennial $25,000 donations to national campaigns, but know-how, not money, worked her up to national committeewoman...