Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always has (at the age of 13, he became the pool champion of his neighborhood in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, upholding the honor and petty bets of the Irish kids against the Italian champion "from up the hill"). He invited Shuman to try his skill at a nearby billiard room. Shuman nicked Gleason for $100 in a close game of straight. "I'll bet you another hundred," said Gleason. Shuman then ran through 70 balls righthanded, 30 more lefthanded, and shut Gleason out cold in a 100-point game. "I don't know who the hell...
...beats going home to do the dishes." The Bronco, another Dallas bowling alley, features two restaurants, a four-chair barbershop, beauty shop and dance band, and is diversifying to attract nonbowlers by installing pool tables, table tennis and miniature golf. Eastgate Colosseum near Cleveland has a swimming pool. 18 billiard tables, indoor miniature golf and pingpong, and handles weddings and bar mitzvahs as well...
...slithering along." To slither better, Bittick also shaved the hair from his arms before his triple-crown performance. Clark's normal headdress is a close crew cut, but for the indoor championships he took a drastic trimming. He bounced out of the Yale pool with a shining, billiard-bald scalp. Actually, said
...visit to London's Press Club. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 60, became the first woman ever to enter its hallowed taproom, graciously acknowledged the honor by picking up a billiard cue and hazarding a left-handed shot. "Rather fun," said Queen Mum. while being snapped in an already famous photograph. After she had departed the Fleet Street sanctuary, the club secretary commented, "She was very expert; you can tell that she's played before" a supposition subsequently confirmed by a press aide, who classed her a pretty fair player...
...hyperbole ("Carpets of so thick a nap that midgets would get lost in them and have to be rescued by dogs") is ingenious. His clichés ("The shot's not on the board, old dear") click with an exquisite remoteness in the modern ear, like ghostly billiard balls in country houses far away and long...