Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing against the Norfolk, Country Club on Thursday the Crimson netmen again started out to make it a clean sweep by taking the six singles matches and the first doubles match, but here their streak was stopped when the two remaining doubles combinations lost in three sets after they had taken the opening set...
...matches in which much sparkling tennis was displayed. The two teams divided the singles matches and it was Harvard's 2 to 1 edge in the doubles that gave them victory. The feature matches were Whitbeck's defeat by C. Alphonso Smith, national star and Ingraham's three set victory over Taylor...
Unofficialdom. Smart unofficial society falls into two groups: Cave-dwellers and Newcomers. The Cave-dwellers are the old residents, rich and socially secure, who hold themselves aloof from the comings and goings of the ever-shifting official set. Their women wear pompadours, subscribe to charities, keep their names out of the newspapers. As social stage managers, the Cave-dwellers entertain only the most select officials. Their parties are small and quiet. In return, they are invited to the most exclusive official functions...
...Newcomers arrived in Washington sometime after the turn of the century. They are the active stagemanagers who keep the official actors moving rapidly from one dining room set to the next. They are mostly Wet. They play bridge and poker, go in for costume parties. Their parties are less exclusive than the Cave-dwellers', but they seldom give their guest lists to the newspapers...
...Estate. Beatrice Blackmar and Bruce Gould have set down with strength and fidelity a story that is covered by millions of rooftops throughout the world- the story of ambition fastened to earth by the inevitable tendrils of dependence. It is their first play and it has, here and there, the gaucheries of inexperience, but it seldom loses its hold on the fundamental truth on which it is based-the fact that, in the curiously woven pattern of human life, there is no such thing as independence...