Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy thing to rule a kingdom...
...therefore, still less easy to rule a kingdom when you have a toothache. But such was the sad plight last week of Alexander I, King of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes...
...onetime junior singles champion, onetime Davis Cup defender, whose attempt to justify his turning professional brought forth lame excuses, and turned away many who otherwise might have given him their support. The other was William Tatem Tilden II, who last week was found guilty of breaking the player-writer rule of the U. S. L. T. A. and punished by indefinite banishment from amateur tennis...
...guilty; and 2) he released for publication a letter which he wrote to President Samuel H. Collom, of the U. S. L. T. A., wherein he said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate the rule." This constitutes either falsehood or an anaemic revival of his 1925 alibi, when he was in a similar difficulty for a similar offense...
...Cuban has often observed that it is not always the most brilliant player who wins a tournament. In fact it is more often the exception than the rule for the special brilliancy prize to be awarded to the victor...