Word: racketeers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will include studies of Miss Helen Wills, Tilden, Johnston, Richards, and R. N. Williams 2nd '16. They show the cut, spin, and direction of the stroke, in some cases from several angles. The footwork and position of the player's body before and at the moment of contact between racket and ball is shown. Coach H. L. Cowles will point out the technique of the players and demonstrate methods of each play. The films thus afford an excellent opportunity to study the world's tennis champions at their best
...Alvear and the Cabinet met him. They drove up the Calle Florida in a state carriage to Government House with every loophole and cranny crammed with huzzahing populace, with every now and then the raucous voice of some exiled Britisher rising above the general din, augmented by the racket of airplanes overhead...
Direction that was so obvious that it seemed at times burlesque blurred the virtues of the work. Fervent overacting also detracted. Ruth Nugent, quiet, direct, sometimes a little wistful amid the sub-Babbitt racket, mattered markedly. Altogether the piece is a doubtful value, and yet the first entertainment of the season for adult consideration...
...allowed only two games in the third. When the final point was scored, she yielded for the first time in her career to the impulse of savage exultation that makes the Indian prance, the schoolboy yowl, the boxer shake his gloves over his head. She threw down her racket and leaped in air and cried out shrilly before she crossed to shake the hand of Miss McKane...
...finals, lank James O. Anderson of Australia gazed bitterly but with a certain sardonic resignation at the balls that bounded past, around and over him; occasionally he waved his racket at one, but for the most part he was content to let his opponent, Vincent Richards, have his way with them. In the first two sets, it is true, he had tried more vigorously, even winning the second. But his own apathy and the brilliance of Richards conspired to give two love sets, the match, in Seabright Men's Singles, to the latter...