Word: townsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cocky Oregonian Wayne Sabin, 23, a career tennist who thinks he is the second best player in the U. S. and can get several tennis fans to agree with him-primarily because his steady, all-round game has defeated almost every top-flight U. S. player (including his fellow-townsman Elwood Cooke four out of five times) in the circuit of southern tournaments last winter...
...Democrat Pius Schwert of Buffalo introduced in the House a bill echoing one introduced in February by his fellow townsman, New Dealing Senator Mead: to give RFC's Jesse Jones authority to insure bank loans to small business...
...Kelly approved of Billy Sunday, was a friend of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, engaged in frequent religious skirmishes with his fellow townsman, Unbeliever Henry Louis Mencken. For many years he crusaded against liquor, prostitution, Sunday movies, gambling, birth control...
...distinction of being the fourth U. S.-born-&-bred golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...
Even today few piano accordion squeezers rank as virtuosos. But this week, after an accordion recital in Philadelphia's staid Academy of Music, Philadelphia critics admitted that their townsman, dark, 30-year-old Andy Arcari, could claim the title. Accordionist Arcari, who had given previous recitals in Pittsburgh and Toledo, played a program ranging from Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen. Said Critic Henry Pleasants: "Here was a brilliance in scale and arpeggio passages that many a violinist or pianist could envy." Virtuoso Arcari, who makes most of his living teaching and playing...