Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in November Belles plans to let the stroke oars, Chace, Rowe, Frank Lawrence, and Jim Curwen, choose up crews which will practice for a week together and then have a mile race...
...present-day New Englanders. The appelations "Cookie," "Ducky," "Sandra Teetis," "Herman Milankoskywitz" strike the onlooker with a display of colors, varied handwriting, and added hieroglyphics. Beside the carefully letted name of "Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, stands a little message that will cause the historians of the next century to stroke their wisdom teeth in wonderment: "President Conant loves Marlene Dictrich...
...into the Davis Cup interzone final four times (1932-35-36-37). He has played 74 Davis Cup matches and lost only 14, five in his first season. He has defeated every leading amateur in the world. Last year in the French champion ships, fortified by a cleaner backhand stroke he had learned from William Tatem Tilden, he beat Fred Perry for the title. Then the following month at Wimbledon he strained a thigh muscle and lost to Perry in the final...
Died. Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, 74, founder of the modern Olympic Games; after an apoplectic stroke; in Geneva, Switzerland...
Died. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 75, novelist; after an apoplectic stroke; at her villa near Saint-Brice-Sous-Forêt, France. Edith Jones was born into a socially prominent New York family which discouraged her early attempts at writing, although when she was 15 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had some of her poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, Boston banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed...