Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rode in a parade of automobiles from Atlanta to her home in Albany, and crowds cheered along the way. In her home town, prominent citizens gathered on the stage of the auditorium, whites on the right, Negroes on the left, to pay her honor. Mayor James W. ("Taxi") Smith eulogized her in a short speech...
Timing Is Everything. "Now here comes the moment," writes Potter in his best Punch style, "on which not only this match, but so much of the future of British sport was to turn. Score: forty-love. Smith at 51 [see cut] is about to cross over to serve to me (at P). When Smith gets to a point (K) not less than one foot and not more than two feet beyond the center of the court (I know now what I only felt then-that timing is everything in this gambit), Joad (standing at J2) called across...
...Crude to our ears, perhaps. A Stone-Age implement. But beautifully accurate gamesmanship for 1931 ... Smith (at Point K) stopped dead...
...Smith: 'I'm so sorry ... I thought it was out . . . But what did you think, Brown...
...There is nothing more putting off to young university players than a slight suggestion that their etiquette or sportsmanship is in question . . . Smith sent a double fault to me, and another double fault to Joad. He did not get in another ace service till halfway through the third set of a match which incidentally we won . . . For me it was the birth of gamesmanship...