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Word: tennistar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear a real American red-hot momma, and I wasn't wrong. It was as good as being presented at court." San Franciscans flocked to their M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, gaped in perplexity at a visual interpretation of Tannhauser music executed in ink by Tennistar Helen Wills Moody. Some San Franciscans: "Chicken tracks!" Said Mrs. Moody on how she got started on her in terpretations: "I played a phonograph record. ... I had a pencil in my hand and unconsciously I traced a pattern of the rhythm." Convicts in the educational department of California's San Quentin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Actress). Disengaging, she says to him: "What is your name?" With the ineptitude of a musical comedy without music, the scene shifts quickly to a Manhattan dress shoppe, to a Westchester Country club, to "the Conquistador Hotel in Baja California," which means Lower California. In Paris. Bing becomes a tennistar, in Westchester he and Miss Kirkland are bedded, in Mexico they are again thrown together. For some reason not clearly indicated, each has married someone else, probably from theatrical pique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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