Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League A racquet wielders will get into action again today when Eliot plays Adams at the Eliot courts, Lowell meets Leverett at the Lowell courts, and Kirkland tries Winthrop at the Kirkland course. The only other squash matches before vacation will be played tomorrow in League...
...semi-finals, 15-11, 15-12, 15-13, and by beating Jay Iselin '29, 15-7, 15-9, 15-12. Although Pool had no trouble in winning from Dixon and Iselin, he had a close five game match with Perry Pease of the New York Tennis and Racquet Club earlier in the tournament. Iselin entered the finals by defeating George D. Debovoise '26 in a close match, 17-14, 18-14, 15-13, having defeated the present National Champion, J. L. Pool '28, Beckman Pool's brother, on Saturday...
...President Hoover's name was last week posted on the bulletin board of Washington's fashionable Racquet Club for failure to pay a 25? house bill. Telephone calls by Son Allan accounted for the bill. Payment was quickly made and a clerk reprimanded...
...circuit about Washington is wide and continuous. At his S Street house near the Woodrow Wilson residence he provides frequent and elaborate hospitality. (The Castle family, with its Hawaiian holdings in banks and public utilities, is wealthy.) Late in the afternoon he can generally be found swimming in the Racquet Club pool...
...Manhattan, Sam Brawermann. 32, retired buttonhole maker, advertised Science & Invention, amused Union Square crowds by squeezing through the model of a keyhole, 6½ in. wide, 12½ in. long. Nimble Mr. Brawermann then tore the strings out of a tennis racquet, climbed through the frame. Next he took off his shirt, lay on a bed of 1,200 spikes, permitted people to walk over him. When he got up his skin was unbroken. Five feet five inches tall, weighing 150 lb., Mr. Brawermann said that he had never been on the stage, had just picked up his tricks...