Word: staining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a big grass-stain on his white flanneled knee, William Tilden, champion of the world, limped over to the umpire's stand and wiped Bis bleak face with a towel. It was the third set and thirteenth game of his match against Rene Lacoste, at Germantown, and he was a game behind...
...their doubles match from Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon. But a great issue was in the balance, and Tilden, as he put down the towel and prepared to receive Lacoste's service, was quite aware that this issue might be swayed, for good or evil, by the grass-stain on his trousers...
...doing the same thing now? Lacoste had taken the second set; now, encouraged by the appearance of the grass stain, he took the third. Surely, that was all the incentive Tilden could ask for. ... He had his back, at last, where he liked to have it, against a metaphorical wall. Unfortunately, the grass-stain on his flannelings was not metaphorical; and he had-could one believe it?-a perfectly literal limp. He had hurt himself. That was the plain prose...
...knowledge of the "caste" system was none the less because in 1920 he had failed to persuade the masses and the "untouchable castes" to treat each other as "blood brothers," thereby causing his political defeat through lack of unity. Well he knew the Brahmanic conception of an indelible hereditary stain resting upon definite groups of men. And, of course, they could ask him to tell them of literature. Who better than Gandhi knew Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy? Or the science of government? Gandhi knew well Britain's jails. Then religion- how the Mahatma's deep oriental mysticism had swayed...
...Jones?Doubleday, Page ($2). "Happy the man who, devoid of cares and strife, in silken or in leathern purse retains the splendid shilling." So lied the old Welsh proverb. The girl, Danzel, wore the crusted coin?rapt from the empty ribs of a warrior?until there was a green stain on her breast. She made to give it to Guy Puncheon as he left Wales to let his half-gypsy blood race free and find their fortune. But it dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against his travels...