Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against the two balls he is trying to keep against the cushion. When will he miss? Last week in San Francisco Edouard Horemans of Belgium shot 248 times, then stood aside for Jacob Schacfer to shoot...
Furthermore, it may well be remembered that Judge Ben Lindsey in his book on companionate marriage noted "the tendency of the younger generation to seek comfort and convenience." His meaning is dual. Unquestionably he was at that time aware of the cushion menace to religion...
...speedboat, plunging forward on its cushion of spray, carried His Highness Prince Louis II of Monaco, last week, across shimmering Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to Georgetown. For several days the Sovereign of Monaco had dwelt in complete incognito and obscurity (TIME, Jan. 23) at Hobcan Barony, the luxurious Carolina coast hunting lodge of Manhattan economist Bernard Mannes Baruch. As the speedboat slithered up to a pier at Georgetown, last week, Mr. Baruch and Prince Louis hailed an ancient Negro hackman who drove them to the station. There His Highness entrained for Manhattan, after buying a newspaper...
...block of billiards played yesterday in the Main Living Room of the Union, Jake Schaefer, world's 18.1 balkline champion, defeated Welker Cochran 250 to 69, and in a game of 3 cushion billiards he won over Cochran by a score...
Time was when even famed players could not score thus monotonously. Cushions were made of wood or cloth stuffed with hair; balls caromed crazily. Tablebeds were wood; cues wood untipped. With these and cruder implements billiards was played for many centuries; references to its ancestry are found in Shakespeare and stories of the Crusades. About 100 years ago leather cue tips; stone table beds; and rubber cushions clustered to change the game. In 1854 one Michael Phelan contrived an improved cushion; became first U. S. champion. Many masters have succeeded him. Today great players are Edouard Horemans, Belgium; Eric Hagenlacher...