Word: cushioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was what boastful Welker Cochran thought of his principal opponents four weeks ago when he settled down at Manhattan's Capitol Billiard Academy to a three-week defense of his world's three-cushion billiard championship. In his first match, against left-handed Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then...
...extreme. The scene of the action is the stage of a Chinese theatre. The Property Man (Arthur Shaw) sits off to one side drinking tea and smoking a cigarette. Every so often he gets up with a bored look, to tend to his duties. He throws down a red cushion to signify a gory head, tosses pieces of paper around to depict a snowstorm, etc. The sheer artificiality of this conventional, pseudo-Chinese method of representation is at first somewhat startling, then vaguely amusing, but finally becomes pretty bore-some. However, the completely disinterested attitude of the Property...
...fancy shot billiard artist, will demonstrate some of his uncanny cue feats before members of the Freshman Class in the Union Billiard room at 3 o'clock this afternoon. One of Peterson's well known tricks consists of hitting the ball with enough English so that it strikes one cushion six times. Peterson is lining up college players for the third annual intercollegiate billiard championship, which gets under way early next month...
...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
...House of Morgan headed a bankers' pool (Partner Whitney, who said he was "gun shy" of the word "pool." preferred to call it a "suspense account") to cushion the crashing stockmarket. It had resources of $250,000,000 of which it spent $137,752,705 in making a market for 37 key stocks. By 1930 the pool had turned a paper loss of $40,000,000 into a cash profit of $1,067,355. Morgan & Co. charged no commission for its services...