Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge's, a forehand like Vines's, a backhand like nobody's and a service like sixty to nudge the tired veteran Bromwich (a year his senior) out of the tournament...
...Slovakia as part of Germany. Minister Wilbur Carr was told to close his legation in Prague, come home. But other branches of Franklin Roosevelt's Government had to face facts. They took steps which not only recognized Adolf Hitler as CzechoSlovakia's new ruler but dealt him backhand blows...
...best forehand in the world, that he had beaten Fred Perry, his successor and Budge's predecessor as world's No. 1 amateur, in a night-after-night series of professional matches last year. Budge backers were equally vociferous in proclaiming that their man has the best backhand in the world, that he had won every match he wanted to win since Fred Perry beat him at Forest Hills in 1936, that he is the only tennist in history to win in one year all four major amateur championships: Australian, French, English, U. S. Like urchins arguing...
Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the Budge backhand finally met the Vines forehand. It was the opening match of a 70-city Budge v. Vines professional tour, and 17,000 tennis enthusiasts gladly paid up to $7.70 a seat to see it: They breathlessly watched Budge serve his first ball-his first stroke under lights, indoors, for pay. The ball landed three feet beyond the baseline...
...right!" was "Happy" Chandler's attempt at cheerfulness after Franklin Roosevelt had departed. But that night at Bowling Green, in praising Kentucky's other Senator, Marvel Mills Logan, for standing "square like a rock" on a certain occasion, the President dealt the young Governor a painful backhand blow. Senator Logan explained that on the occasion referred to. "Happy" Chandler had gone to the White House with the proposal that Senator Logan be made a Federal judge so that Chandler could go to the Senate without threatening the seat of Majority Leader Barkley. The President and Senator Logan...