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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1928, when enough women took up the game to make competition exciting, Eleo (as she is known in swish circles) won the first national squash racquets championship for women. The following year, she held famed Professional Walter Kinsella, world's squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Before she took up squash, Spinster Sears was a topflight tennis player, won the national doubles title four times (with

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman twice, with Molla Bjurstedt Mallory twice). She has won 240 cups-mostly at tennis, squash and horse-show jumping.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Dooley. He gave up his untidy house in town, moved out to a country home near Stamford, Conn. There he clothed his immensity in a pair of frayed trousers and a sweatshirt. But he remained a member of Manhattan's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club, wore costly suits made by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Famed for her parties was the late Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice. Until she dropped dead two years ago while shopping in Paris, her tennis-week ball was the No. 1 social event of the Newport season. Lavish was the word for her entertainments at her other mansions in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brother-in-Law | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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