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...brilliant game he used to exhibit consistently. He could not get through Doeg's smashing left-hand service, losing at love nine out of his opponent's last 16 service games. Doeg, never surefooted, never brilliant, aced him 28 times, played Tilden's deep backhand to thwart the maestro's terrific placement game. With the match score 10-8, 6-3, 3-6 in Doeg's favor, the crowd sat on the edge of their cushions at the beginning of the last set. Still quarreling with decisions, Tilden mustered all his declining strength, twice made...
...Pops The Devil. When he was employed to write advertising at $75 per week, Steve Merrick (Roger Pryor) was unable to write his book. Living in a Greenwich Village flat with Anne (Sally Bates), who is trying to be a dancer, his numerous and very funny friends thwart the accomplishment of any worthy project. So Steve and Anne get married. She goes to dance in a cinemansion while he stays home, keeps house, writes the book. This scheme proves faulty, and they quarrel and separate; she neglects to tell him they are about to have issue. Meeting again-after Steve...
...jobs, replace them with unemployed "Facist" members. Atlanta stores advertised black shirts at reduced rates. The Atlanta newspapers were silent on the new organization, printing little or nothing about its mushroom growth to a membership of over 21,000. Fortnight ago the Black Shirts paraded in Atlanta to thwart a Communist Sacco-Vanzetti memorial meeting...
...casts a spell over the girl. ... If the spell works the girl comes to the man. ... If it doesn't work no fault is found with the magician's services; it is assumed that some enemy magician in another village is casting an evil spirit over the pair to thwart the match...
This purely mechanical feature may tend to thwart one of the fundamental purposes of the House Plan; it is apt to preclude any real possibility of a cross-section of University life...