Word: tennant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WESLEY TENNANT...
...railroad; stuck all the feathers in his cap and called it a day. The feathers were Mexico's national tennis titles. Those who took turns being Yankee Doodle: Vincent Richards, singles; Vincent Richards and Ray Casey, doubles; Mary K. Browne, singles; Charlotte Hosmer and one Miss Tennant, doubles. Richards was also Yankee Doodle in the 1923 Mexican singles...
Margot Asquith. At a meeting in Glasgow which Mr. Asquith's brother, H. J. Tennant, was addressing, interruptions became so frequent that the meeting developed into a general uproar. At that point Mrs. Asquith, who was among the audience, ascended the platform and announced: "This gentleman is my brother. You have a perfect right to come here, but no right to do what you are doing now. Those who don't want to listen...
Rowdyism. At several points rowdyism assumed serious proportions. In Glasgow, H. J. Tennant, the Liberal candidate, was forced to seek police protection, while Miss Violet Robertson, Conservative for the St. Roller constituency, was spat upon, "kicked in the shin" and "treated insultingly" by a crowd of hooligans. In London H. Hogbin, Liberal candidate for Battersea, was forced to cancel all his meetings because he could never make himself heard. Even the pleas of his opponent for fair play failed to help matters. Lord Curzon was another victim of the rowdies. There were many other incidents of "howling down" meetings...
...Margot (Tennant) Asquith in the second volume of her auto-biography says: " I was tremendously impressed by his conversation and his clean Cromwellian face. He was different from the others and, although abominably dressed, had so much personality that I made up my mind...