Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East-West. A salient fact about tennists is that they never tire of their pastime. Twenty years ago, officials of the United States Lawn Tennis Association found a few temporarily at liberty between the exhausting string of summer tournaments and the National Championships, promptly and sympathetically organized an East-West series to keep them busy. How frivolous this series has become was demonstrated by the fact that one of the members of the West's team last week at The Orange Lawn Tennis Club was Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., another, Charles Harris of West Palm Beach...
William R. Eyler, 17, of 1942 Freeman street, Toledo, O.; De Vilbiss High School; son of the late William R. Eyler, departmental head, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; ranked second among the boys in his class and was local president of the National Honor Society...
...sardonic member of the Swanee Sisters, she accompanies the action with a running fire of contemptuous comment on Raft, the radio, the Swanee Sisters' sponsor, a socialite party which the Sisters attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in general. When the Swanee Sisters have executed a bewildering overnight rise from penniless unemployment to cabaret celebrity, Patsy Kelly is less pleased than truculently suspicious and, when a waiter hands her a caviar canapé, her dissatisfaction is complete. "What good is caviar?" she demands hoarsely. "It tastes like buckshot soaked...
...Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles for the birthday cake. Beamed Dr. House: "The whole place seems to me as much like a miracle as possible when we remember what it was when we bought it. I never tire of looking out from our patio or out of our screened porch which looks out directly on the sea. It is all so beautiful, so restful to us old folks...
...home for liberated slaves. Liberia has become the scandal and pesthouse of West Africa. Slavery is rampant in the interior, so is malaria. Both have made inroads in neighboring British and French territory, but the only respectable firm that has ever made serious inroads in Liberia is Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. Many times in recent years there have been delicate hints that the League of Nations would be more than pleased if the U. S. would accept a mandate over Liberia. The U. S. has persistently dodged. Roaring defiance in Manhattan last week Liberia's dusky...