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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gaunt, graceful William Tatem Tilden II strode out on the green canvas floor of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week, and smiled his satisfaction upon the galleries. There was plenty to smile about, for not one seat in the huge house was vacant. A crowd of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennists on Tour | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

7) Chautauquans can boat, play golf and tennis and swim on Sundays.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

When plump young Ronald Tucker Finney, prize bond broker of Emporia, Kans., was spending money few men in Kansas outdid him. He owned two Arabian thoroughbreds, a Bellanca monoplane, a fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Finney Finish | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

In a rather facetious critical mood Mr. George Jean Nathan once observed that American high comedy failed because when one character had insulted another, something devastating was said in return; whereas, in English high comedy, the offended person simply strolled off the stage announcing that he was going out to...

Author: By H. F. K., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/12/1934 | See Source »

Engaged. Dwight Filley Davis Jr., 26, only son of the onetime Governor General of the Philippine Islands, Coolidge Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (tennis); and Dorothea E. Gay, 22, Manhattan socialite, niece of Painter Walter Gay.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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