Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuttle possesses the accomplishment of wearing a high comb (occasionally diamond studded) with the authentic air of a peeress supporting a tiara. Such gracious poise, when supported by copious and persuasive League small talk, has converted many a Manhattan parson, brought round numerous editors and educators, and secured-hearty cooperation from dozens of distinguished persons who were not previously "League conscious...
...tickets include a round-trip by bus, starting from a stated point...
...national doubles] title stay here in our country, but I fear that it will go 'down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory over the French...
...golf course at Lake Placid, N. Y., last week, Rosa Melba Ponselle laughed and chattered from the high spirits of her summer out-of-doors. Playing the round with her, was her singing coach, Romano Romani. He watched her grow serious and silent to tee off. His eyes were on the ball...
...palish gray; his prominent eyeballs, framed in reddish half-closed lids, have a lustreless prismatic glint; a shapeless little poodle nose surmounts a self-indulgent mouth which prepares us for his ample waistline and the folds of flesh above his stiff collar. He stands alone because the cercle round him has formed at a respectful distance. Now ... [a sycophant] advances with a deep obeisance, shakes the great man's hand . . . and then withdraws backward, wriggling his rump with fawning rapture. . . . Vivat Gustavus...