Word: slams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Sayre has had a distinguished career as a teacher and lecturer, and is the author of several volumes on international law. In 1924 he was created Phya Kalyan Maltri by the King of Slam, in recognition of his distinguished work in the field of international...
...lemon. As he walked back to the baseline after a point he often shook his head-the only gesture left in his gay repertory. Richards ran the score to 5-3, to advantage in the match game, lost the point and then stepping back for a slam, got the ball on the wood of his racket and netted it. Kozeluh won the game and Richards, on his next serve, double-faulted twice for the first time that day-too tired to make any resistance to his squirrel-quick opponent who won the next game, the set, the National Professional title...
...would have been much fairer for you to have headed this under its proper descriptive caption rather than taking a slam at chocolates. It is all right for you to be original in your headings but please don't stray from the truth...
...middle-aged squash player who, speedy in his day, learns a softball style and lets the other fellow slash. Such is the wisdom of Dr. Harold R. Mixsell, hale squash oldster of Manhattan's Princeton Club, that his new softball style is even more baffling than the slam-banging game he used to play. Last week, it won for him, with great ease, his fourth consecutive national veterans' squash championship. Runner-up: William Murray Lee of the Columbia University Club...
When U.S. telephone subscribers ask for West 4251 and get East 4391, they slam down indignant receivers and call the New York (Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Savannah) telephone system the worst in the world. Of course they really know that the U.S. telephone system is the best in the world. And if they have tried to use South American telephones, they realize the shocking extent of their exaggeration...