Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will Tilden immediately exploded. Said he: "Writing is my chosen career. The committee may not know that I began working for newspapers while in my junior year at college and have been identified with the writing game since then. I hadn't even won a State title during my early years in the newspaper game, so my work was not dependent upon my ability as a tennis player. Neither was the fact that I have done dramatic and music reviews for metropolitan papers, nor that I have had eight fiction stories accepted by magazines in the last 18 months...
There promises to develop a literature-lawn tennis controversy which will live long in literary and sporting annals. The interesting point, of course, and the one which will never be proved is the attitude magazine editors might take toward Mr. Tilden's fiction if he should leave the courts permanently in favor of literature...
...Tilden...
...amateur rules it was of course, impossible to grant Anderson's request, although the Association would doubtless have been glad enough to do so. Unless he changes his mind, the Australian Davis Cup Team will lose the man who last September brilliantly defeated William M. Johnson, and gave Tilden a run for his money...
Said Harold Hackett to William Tilden...