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...found in the Turks a people of integrity and tolerance, but because they refused to turn Christian, we have visited the butcher-legend upon them while exalting Greeks and Armenians upon an equally artificial martyr-legend. Among Imperialists, one can understand the necessity of an inflexible attitude of superiority, but among Christians it corresponds neither to reality nor to the teachings of the First Christian...
Retorted Hackett in a letter to the same publication: "Unfortunately Tilden considers himself not only the greatest singles player, but also the greatest doubles player. . . . He absolutely fails to understand the great fundamental of the doubles game which is position play. . . . The Davis Cup Committee is responsible for results. . . . Tilden was believed capable of playing the doubles match, in spite of an atrocious performance in the 1922 Davis Cup Doubles. The fact that he chose to park his intelligence outside the stadium was naturally unexpected by any of the committee...
...understand you buy Lamb autographs...
...evening. He dwelt on the opportunities which the Cosmopolitan club offers, and then emphasized as even more important the responsibilities which it entails. "The world is being brought closer and closer together," he said. "that means we must either be better enemies or better friends. We must get to understand each other or there will be trouble. This meeting, in a highly entertaining way, is a very serious bit of preparation for the work which we must do in the world...
...played before only one audience in my life that was more depressing than a Boston audience, and that was composed entirely of Pennsylvania Dutch who didn't understand English...