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Word: roumania (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billiards, soaked up jazz and thought of a career as a nightclub singer or musician (Sugar Ray bought her a saxophone). Then, in the summer of 1946, Althea moved up to the women's division of the Negro A.T.A. national championships. She was beaten in the finals by Roumania Peters, a Tuskegee Institute instructor, but her tremendous potential as a tennis player caught the attention of two A.T.A. officials: Dr. Robert Johnson, a general practitioner from Lynchburg, Va., and Dr. Hubert Eaton, a surgeon from Wilmington, N.C. Dr. Johnson took Althea aside and asked bluntly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Gibson Girl | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...Parsons cautioned that the large throughout the country should not definitely be attributed to a charismatic personality. "Remember that he is a famous man--they turn out to see him just as they used to for Queen Marie of Roumania."PARSONS Intellectuals...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lucas, | Title: Parsons Decides Stevenson May Have 'Common Touch' | 10/10/1952 | See Source »

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