Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Tatem Tilden II: his series of matches against his onetime doubles partner, Vincent Richards, for the indoor professional tennis championship of the world (TIME, May 18); by winning the second match in Boston, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3; the third, more easily, in Philadelphia 6-4, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2. Continuing the tour to Chicago Tilden...
...Chassidic chants. † Last week Dr. Holmes listed the "ten greatest women of today," as follows: Jane Addams, "greatest among modern women"; Theosophist Annie Besant; Catherine Breshkovsky, "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution"; Scientist Mme Marie Curie; Anarchist Emma Goldman; Helen Keller, "most perfectly triumphant of women"; Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Mme Sarojini Naidu, "first among Indian women"; Margaret Sanger, "indomitable advocate of birth control"; Authoress Sigrid Undset...
William Tatem Tilden II had not played Vincent Richards for five years because Richards was a professional and the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association would not countenance official matches between pros and amateurs. But after Tilden turned pro himself (TIME, Jan. 12) a match between them loomed. Shrewdly Promoter Jack Curley, tsar of U. S. professional tennis, built up for this match a lusty Irish ballyhoo startling in tennis* although routine in Mr. Curley's boxing and wrestling enterprises. He had the rivals issue derisive statements about each other which neither would under any circumstances have uttered. Curley further...
...Mama Inez" and "Muchacha" (Brunswick)?Vincent Lopez makes the best Cuban rumba records. Honors go to his percussives...
Among members who were elected at the same time are Professors S.B. Fay '96 and P.A. Sorokin of Harvard as well as Calvin Coolidge, Stephen Vincent Benet, and R.W. Boyden...