Word: second-ranking
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...hour later, when her match with Mrs. O. J. Dewhurst, a second-rank English player, had been definitely postponed, she drove up in an open Rolls Royce, sent her apologies to the Queen. She had not felt like playing, she said. Then, amid lusty English boos, she drove off. Said the London Daily News: "By being indisposed, Mile Lenglen has created a bigger sensation than if Poincaré had publicly embraced Caillaux...