Word: player
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plight of the family's housemaid. Appleby is much older than she and, though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also reveals that the young college hockey player whom she thought she loved is not so ardent as he seemed. James Stevens (Minor Watson), the tweedy young family lawyer, meets the issue by claiming to be the prospective father. He has loved Joyce all along and now proposes marriage. She blissfully agrees, and has the girlish pleasure of telling...
...Shenandoah, Iowa, Dwight Nichols drove a golf ball which struck a tree, alighted in the shirt pocket of another player...
Married. David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, 27, 11th Earl of Northesk, onetime (1923-28) husband of Jessica Brown, Follies dancer; to Miss Betty Vlasto, 22, cousin of Tennis Player Didi Vlasto; in London...
Birthday. Sydney Farrar, father of Geraldine Farrar; in Ridgefield, Conn. Age: 70. To Father Farrar's party went his daughter and many a retired professional baseball player who had known "Syd" Farrar when he played with the Philadelphia National League team...
...kept the title until 1912 and then, though "they never come back," rewon it in 1919. Her score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years ago. The next year her husband, George W. Wightman, an able player himself, was elected President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Mother of four, brown, firm, skillful, she it was who coached Helen Wills to win the singles title from Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in 1923. "Calm, quiet, generous and sporting," as Helen Wills calls her, she it is who deserves credit...