Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HUGH WATSON...
...Senate sit 55 Republicans elected by the people. A majority, they control Senate committees, frame legislation. A Republican vice president sits upon the rostrum. Republican James Eli Watson leads the Senate. These facts did not deter Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, at a G. O. P. clambake at Fall River, in analyzing the Republican defeat in Massachusetts last year as follows...
Helen ("Big Helen") Wills, in crisp white linen, crisply set down Mrs. Phoebe Watson...
Then up rose Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Leo R. C. Mitchell to meet Big Helen Wills and Edith Cross. Never was there a clearer demonstration that doubles play is a different game from singles, a game about which Big Helen Wills still has a lot to learn. The English ladies...
...rain descended the second day. Mrs. Watson took Little Helen Jacobs out to the centre court and gave her a baseline trimming. 6?3, 6?2. Mrs. Mitchell took Edith Cross out and almost gave her a trimming but Miss Cross finally found the chalk-lines and won, 6?3, 3?6, 6?3. Mrs. B. C. Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, runners-up at Wimbledon, continued the visitors' lessons in doubles play for Little Helen's benefit. The latter's partner, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. 25 times a champion, needed no such instruction, but the final score...