Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It seems that the same practice goes on in your reportorial staff because for two years now, your tennis reporter has described Forest Hills first as "flat and singularly unarboreal" [TIME, Sept. 14, 1936], and this year as "the otherwise undistinguished New York suburb of Forest Hills" [TIME, Sept. 13...
¶ She mentions Frederick Shander Moody Jr., young San Francisco broker, as following her to tournaments, climbing the Jungfrau, playing an occasional game of tennis, once making off with a basket of champagne presented by an admirer, does not indicate why she decided to obtain the divorce granted her Aug...
Helen Wills began playing tennis during the War when her father, a Berkeley, Calif, physician, went to a French base hospital and left his 15-ounce racquet behind him. A pigtailed, direct little girl, she took it for granted from the start that winning was synonymous with trying. She did...
¶ When George Bernard Shaw told her that tennis should be played by nude young women in the long grass of the meadows, she "tried not to let a flicker of expression cross my face."
Helen Wills Moody is still an able tennis player as she demonstrated last fortnight when she paired with Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm to win the mixed doubles in the Pacific Southwest championship tournament from Mrs. John Van Ryn and Donald Budge. But "a stupid mechanical difficulty with...