Word: wrenn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
GEORGE M. WRENN...
Once the hall has been cleaned out and tidied up, the Casino elders plan to fill it with relics and sport curios. On its walls will hang photographs of such court immortals as Richard D. Sears, Robert D. Wrenn, Bill Tilden and Don Budge. The racquets they used and the clothes they wore while making tennis history will be on display. U.S. tennis fans were not too preoccupied with this week's Nationals to ignore Van Alen's announcement; the Hall of Fame already has a sizable kitty...
...stained-glass window shows the symbolic figures of athletes surrounding medallions of Esau the hunter, Jacob wrestling with the Angel, and St. Paul with his advice to run a good race. On the wall will be added the names of some modern sports giants: Tennis Champion Robert D. Wrenn, baseball's Christy Mathewson, football's Walter Camp and hockey's Hobey Baker...
...Great Belch. Cried the hero of Lewis' second novel, Our Mr. Wrenn, a little Babbitt who managed to break out of his narrow life: "Let us be great lovers! Let us be mad! Let us stride over the hilltops!" Those were the sentiments on which Harry Sinclair Lewis, a doctor's son of New England ancestors, consciously patterned his life. He went to Yale, worked as janitor at Upton Sinclair's Socialist community of Helicon Hall in New Jersey, lived on rice in a California seaside cottage. In 1919, after publishing six conventional novels, all failures...
...even this final shred of my adversary's case. It is time both of those gentlemen learned something most of us realize by the age of six: when you are caught doing something naughty, it is best to admit it and promise not to do it again. George L. Wrenn...