Word: vivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They saw Borotra indicate that he might not have been of much use to France's Davis Cup team in any case by losing, after five hard sets, to Czechoslovakian Roderick Menzel. In the most startling upset of the week, Wilmer Allison lost to Australia's unorthodox Vivian McGrath in the first round. After seven days of play, the only U. S. player left in the men's singles was red-haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. Experts agreed that England's Fred Perry, last year's champion, still had the best chance...
From his publisher's standpoint Mr. Vivian Tidmarsh was hero of the day. Mr. Tidmarsh, subeditor on the Evening News, showed that his office had learned of Alice Puddifoot's vindication just in time to slip a few lines into the "stop-press" corner of the last edition. The Evening News got off with only one farthing damages...
Last week Vivian LaMarre, Frances "Queen of Diamonds," upon whom Swindler Stavisky reputedly spent $6,000 a month was ordered to pay her rent or quit her apartment. Mile LaMarre drew her revolver, shot & killed herself...
Fracture & Diabetes. After noting that several of his patients developed diabetes soon after breaking a leg, Dr. Robert Vivian Funs ten of the University of Virginia discovered that every fracture increases the amount of sugar in the blood and that such increase was just enough to make an outright diabetic of a person already on the verge of the disease...
...collector the late florid George Dawson Rowley of Brighton attempted to avoid competition by concentrating on the eggs and skins of the extinct Great Auk. He assembled the greatest collection of Auk eggs in the world before his death. At the sale last week Captain Vivian Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president...