Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thus Mr. Woodward prepared for his story: After a successful career as a vender of thinking?wholesale and retail?Michael Webb (friend of readers of Bunk) establishes himself at Echo Hill Inn in Connecticut. In this labyrinthine tavern with steps up, steps down from room to room, with a billiard room that is half of the kitchen marked off by a broad red line across which the cooks dare not tread but over which they pasa nicely browned sausages or still-warm tarts to the loungers in the billiard department?in this delectable tavern foregather Michael Webb and claimants...
...annual pool and billiard tournaments now being held at the Union will soon come to a close if plans for the final matches, to be played next Tuesday or Wednesday, are carried...
...front stairs are new, and Mr. Mead expects them to last longer than the 25 years of the old stairs' existence. The building has been made more attractive by the addition of new easy-chairs, and safer through the installation of a complete sprinkling system. The billiard room has been put in perfect condition with new cloths and cushions, new cues, and new pool and billiard balls...
...Hall. Shades of Timothy Dwight! How will God-Bless-You Mary ever collect her washing and how will Jerry deliver the Lit and the Oldest College Daily at the twentieth floor? Why by express elevator of course, and the undergraduate of the future will lounge elegantly about in libraries, billiard parlors and sun rooms hundreds of feet above the site of the historic Sophomore fence. As Dean Jones pointed out, the University of Pittsburgh has a skyscraper; why shouldn't Yale...
Only members are allowed to compete for the prizes which are awarded to the winners of the Essay Competition, or the tennis, squash-racquets, pool and billiard tournaments...