Word: spryness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founder and National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Apparently "Uncle" Dan thinks his 30 years of Scouting is altogether too well known-it "seems to have wiped my past history off the slate," he complains. His picturesque record of a Vanishing American, written with a sort of grizzled spryness, covers his first 60 years, before he joined the Boy Scouts...
...finest sport in the world to watch. Tilden did most of the work for his side until Lott & Doeg broke through his serve in the first game of the fifth set. Tilden's long shape seemed to grow hollower after that. When he scored, he regained a momentary spryness, but when he erred his bad hip hurt him, and he rested on his racquet between shots. Lott & Doeg ran out the match, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 9-n, 6-2. In the finals they ran through Allison & Van Ryn for two sets. It looked like no match...