Word: spaniard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because of their conjugal attachments to another man and their affection for a Spaniard, are unable to return the young aspirant's love. At least the audience seemed to be perfectly familiar with such a state of affairs, and laughed and smirked as only a thoroughly sophisticated audience can. Poor Tony chooses to moon over the affair and cherishes the memories of pleasant summer days spent with his beloved Rose at a cottage rented to her by his mother...
...ironic nickname-the Lambkin. The reader's only regret is at his final end-an end due only to the blindness of his love, which leads him to kill his best friend and finally to deliver himself to his enemies in order to show the faithless Spaniard that he is no coward. And as he mounts his gibbet comes the word from her that what befalls him is nothing to her, and that their child is none...
...semi-finals found Tilden facing Vincent Richards, his onetime protege and doubles partner, now Olympic champion. Tilden had brushed aside all opposition, losing two sets only in four matches, one to Alonso, sleek Spaniard, one to Howard Kinsey, ubiquitous Californian and national doubles champion. "Little Bill" Johnston was in the other bracket, up against Gerald Patterson, smashing Australian...
Drawings were made for the men's National singles tennis championship at Forest Hills, L. I., and out popped the names of Champion Tilden and Manuel Alonso, sleek Spaniard, for the opening round. Alonso has been known to beat Tilden. Also in Tilden's quarter of the draw were Norman E. Brookes, ancient Australian, Pat O'Hara Wood, and Howard Kinsey, the deadlier of the two Kinsey brothers. Any one of these might conceivably upset the elongated Philadelphian...
...Helicopter prize of $25,000. Not all the contestants are British. The U.S. is represented by Emil Berliner and his son Henry who have already achieved considerable success with a vertical lift machine in various tests in Washington. Pescara represents France, and there is at least one Spaniard in the running...