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Word: racketeered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turning from tennis to golf in 1914, Miss Browne picked up her racket again in 1917 and toured the country for the Ambulance Fund. She reappeared in 1921 in the national finals against Molla Mallory, vanished again until two weeks ago at Seabright. In that tournament she flashed through a winner in the singles, doubles, mixed doubles; showed her early brilliance undiminished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Aug. 18, 1924 | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...might get mad and chuck my racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tear-Stained Tilden | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...Save the women and children" and "Hey! Cut out the racket,--I want to study" were but two of the phrases which greeted the Cambridge Fire Department when it arrived to extinguish a small fire in the southwest corner of the roof of the D. K. E. house on Mount Auburn Street last night at 11.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRIGHT REMARKS AND FEW FLAMES IRRITATE FIREMEN | 10/30/1923 | See Source »

Percy Hammond: " The fusillade of pistols, the racket of overturning furniture, the crash of many breaking plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 22, 1923 | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

English blue noses are in the air. The nasal elevation is the result of 'certain press photographs of women tennis players in action. The pictures illustrate with unconscious frankness the calf and knee as well as the racket and wrist combining in the fine gesture of the forehand drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Disrepute | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

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