Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ramsay was for many years a close personal friend of the late Lord Morley (TIME, Oct. 1). Almost every Sunday that found MacDonald in "town" (London) also found him at Flowermead, Lord Morley's Wimbledon home. It is said that Ramsay acquired much of his political knowledge from "old John," as John Morley was known both before and after he accepted a Viscounty...
...Wimbledon. At his annual lawn-tennis party, John Bull of Wimbledon was, as usual, a polite host. He stood sedately aside and let his unruly guests scramble for the goodies, saving only two for himself...
...pair of greedy boys from the French family next door got the Wimbledon bowl away from John's American cousins just before everyone went home. This might not have happened, some thought, if little "Vinnie" Richards, one of the Americans, had gone to bed earlier the week of the party, had not guzzled so much of the punch...
Helen Wills, 18-year-old woman tennis champion of the U. S., now abroad for the English championship matches at Wimbledon, as well as for the Olympic matches, favorably impressed the London critics, not only by her tennis play but by her beauty. In a trial match against Mr. P. D. B. Spence, South African Davis Cup player, she was defeated...
...England, matches will be played at Wimbledon with the Queens Club, Roehampton, and other clubs in the vicinity of London. Then will follow a weeks sojourn on the Isle of Wight, after which the team will return to Eastbourn where the tournament with Oxford and Cambridge will be played...