Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of the Davis Cup tennis match, Referee Cliff Sproule waved his hand and stopped play. The Sydney Stadium crowd began to buzz as Sproule got up and walked to the front-row grandstand seat, where U.S. Coach Jack Kramer was sitting. The referee spoke to Professional Kramer briefly, turned on his heel, and went over to speak to U.S. Captain Frank Shields and Australian Captain Harry Hopman. Then Sproule ordered play resumed...
JANUARY-Fare Enough. In Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran, who advertised that he would pay any prospective customer's transportation to his showroom, got a taker, shelled out $708 for a plane ticket from Sydney, Australia...
...Most radiologists believe it beneath their dignity to treat corns. That, says Dr. Sydney J. Hawley of Seattle, is a mistake: one X-ray treatment will usually remove a corn, and it will not grow back for a year or more...
...sitting of the new Parliament. Those who stayed awake heard a great deal of cross and petty talk. When Shinwell announced that he needed a bath and a shave, a weary Tory brigadier asked him to get his throat cut, too. For talking back to the chair, Left-Winger Sydney Silverman, a tricky little hairsplitting parliamentarian, was suspended (for five days) by a vote...
...Aubrey West's opinion, the world has never done better than chancery. Today there is a solid group of distinguished Britons who want to return to it. Under the leadership of such enthusiasts as Sir Sydney Cockerell, former director of Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum, and Lord Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), Lord Great Chamberlain for Edward VIII, West believes that Britons may soon be writing a fine Italian hand once again. Among the modern models they could imitate...