Word: ravenal
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...orangeade. The crowd, largely composed of Parisian Germans and Parisian Frenchmen who wanted Germany to win because it might make it easier for France in the challenge round, was delighted also by the next thing that happened. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a handsome stocky young German, beat tall, rangy, raven-haired Francis Xavier Shields of New York, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4, 8-6. This unexpected victory?one more in the record of a team that had astounded tennis critics by beating England in the European zone finals?gave an unexpected importance to Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr.'s first...
...bush in search of water and friendly natives, later drank the contents of the plane's radiator. On several occasions they plodded miles to what they thought was a signal fire, arrived exhausted to find an unattended bush fire. They "caught lizards on the rocks, which we ate raven ously." They fashioned a raft from one of their seaplane floats, paddled for five days in a rough sea, saw a steamer pass within a mile of them. Hunger drove them again ashore, to feed on snails and leaves. On the 38th day "to our great excitement we sighted...
...literary clubs, the Transcendental Club; with Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes. Agassiz, Dana he joined the Boston Saturday Club. He tried to introduce Whitman to his Boston friends but Lowell demurred?"a New York tough, a frequenter of low places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory began to fail, his raven hair fell out. A trip to Egypt brought him a new crop of snowy hair, but only a short span of life. At Longfellow's funeral he looked long at his friend's face in the coffin. "I cannot remember his name," he said, "but he was man." Soon after...
...Politicians of the Harding-Coolidge era (1921-29) the phrase "Dollar Wheat" was the sorriest raven-croak of agricultural depression. It suggested unpaid mortgages, political revolts, elections lost. When in July, 1923, wheat dropped to 96^ per bu. there was something akin to panic in Republican Washington, with wild talk that a Republican could not be elected President the following year...
Borolra won the next set, 6-3, lost the third, 4-6. He was making too many doubles?14 in the whole match; netting too many volleys; playing without his usual happy brilliance. The raven-haired Shields, always a favorite with galleries, delighted the Wimbledon crowd by the style and power of his ground-strokes, his serve not unlike Tilden's which he seldom followed to the net. When he had Borotra 4-3 and 40-30 in the fourth set, he seemed certain to win in the next few minutes. Then another unaccountable thing happened. Running for a shot...