Word: racquetment
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Distinct Speech. With the hypnotized fascination of an outsider, O'Hara still writes about the Eastern establishment-gentry who can tell, from a snarled sentence heard in the night, not only that the speaker is Harvard, Racquet Club and drunk, but what brand of 20-year-old Scotch he has been drinking. The fascination has endured for years, and so has Hemingway's crack that someone should take up a collection and send O'Hara to Yale...
...only faintly remembered as the harder-hitting half of the unpronounceable Spanish team that won the 1960 National Indoor doubles championship by default (the other half: Manuel Santana).* But when Promoter Kramer offered Gimeno a pro contract last year, many tennis fans thought that Kramer's racquet had come permanently unstrung...
Midway through the winter, coach Jack Barnaby's squash team played and surrounded one of the few double-headers in Crimson racquet sports history, with victories the same day over Penn and Princeton. This Spring Vacation his tennis varsity attempt an even more ambitious venture--a double schedule for the first and second six against various Southern colleges and other touring Northern teams...
...inner-circle businessmen who gathered at St. Louis' plush Racquet Club grumbled bitterly about Symington's "sellout" to labor, and to this day some of them remain convinced that his romance with U.E.W. was a bit of cynical expediency, however well it may have worked for Emerson Electric. The accusation overlooks Symington's authentic streak of respect for labor, which stems from his grimy days as a chipper and moulder in his uncle's foundry. Over the years, Symington has won the warm respect and esteem of the Electrical Workers' high-voltage President James Carey...
...days of play at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club over the weekend, Harvard again demonstrated its dominance of collegiate court tennis. Eliminating all other competitors in the early rounds, the Crimson players won both the team and individual championships for the fifth consecutive year...