Word: skill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarter finals came the first surprise. Mrs. Mallory, winner last year of the championship from Elizabeth Ryan (Miss Wills did not play), fell before the skill and determination of Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin. Tennis followers saw in the defeat the eclipse of Mrs. Mallory, who came to this country from Norway as Molla Bjurstedt in 1915, and through the years until Helen Wills appeared, monopolized the U. S. women's tennis spotlight...
Western women found a stranger in their midst. Polite to her, they did everything they could to undermine her position. They played on her every trick that strength and skill devise. Over the golf course of the Lake Geneva (Wis.) Country Club, the stranger matched them trick for trick. She was Mrs. Harry Pressler of Los Angeles, playing and winning her first tournament for the Western Women's Golf Championship...
...building of skyscrapers there are a few details in which science has not supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...
Last week, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, skill failed. A rivet leaped through the air, gave a convulsive trout-like twist, dodged the waiting pail, slipped down through the air, gleaming, white hot, toward a Fifth Avenue bus-top. It struck with a hiss upon the back of a silk dress being worn by Helen Frawley, 17. Loiterers watched her being put into a taxicab, rubbed their eyes, gasped, moved away...
George J. Voigt, Washington golfer with many a championship cup on his mantle, has not carried clubs for hire since he was 16; has not received any consideration, directly or indirectly, for playing or teaching the game; nor because of his skill as a golfer received any remuneration from any firm dealing in goods relating to the game; nor played for a money prize. Voigt has not lent his name or likeness for the advertisement or sale of anything except as in the usual course of business; nor permitted Lis name to be advertised or published...