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Connolly

noun

United States tennis player who was the first woman to win the United States, British, French, and Australian championships in the same year (1953) (1934-1969). Synonyms: Little Mo Connolly, Maureen Catherine Connolly.

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"Connolly" Quotes from Famous Books

... circumstances that Senator Morgan, Mr. Hitt, and I visited the islands. The appointment came about in this way. I had been urging the President to appoint Mr. Rheuna Lawrence, of Springfield, Illinois, as one of the commissioners. The Hon. James A. Connolly, then representing the Springfield district in Congress, had also been very active in trying to secure Lawrence's appointment. He came to me in the Senate one day and told me that there was no chance ...

— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom

... a slight notice of the poems of "Thomasine" (known in Ireland as Miss Olivia Knight, and in Australia as Mrs. Hope Connolly), with the following words: "A writer in the Irish Fireside said lately that Eva and Speranza had no successors. We could name, if we dared, three or four daughters of Erin whom we believe to be singing ...

— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 • Various

Words linked to "Connolly" : Maureen Catherine Connolly, Little Mo Connolly, tennis player