Word: forecourt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy started off with a bang against Parker. He won the first game of the first set at love, racing into the forecourt in the wake of his stinging service. For a moment or two, the crowd thought they might be seeing a tennis match. But by the seventh game, Parker had figured out the Sidwell serve, and was methodically running the Australian ragged with lobs to the base line and trap shots just over the net. Parker won without cracking a smile or dropping...
Margaret Osborne, 1947 Wimbledon champion and the world's ranking amateur, Jean Bostock got much more than the single point she had hoped for. With a tenacious retrieving game, she took the second set, lost the third and deciding one, only when Miss Osborne got her forecourt game going full blast. With an earnest manner and a well-displayed figure, Mrs. Bostock succeeded in making the Forest Hills crowd unmistakably pro-British...
Berg already has his first-string five functioning as a unit in serimmages with his second and third teams, brushing up on their man-to-man defense maneuvers and working the ball around the forecourt...
...after he announced his "final" walkout on Wife Elaine Barrie, John Barrymore pulled himself together, joined newshawks and gawkers in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Occasion: publicity gag for his forthcoming self-burlesque. The Great Profile. For years big-time filmfolk have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when...