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...Lloyd, of Williams & Cunnyngham agency, Chicago. The four Brothers Maxwell have a standing challenge to any other foursome of one family, or any foursome of the publishing business. Life's Clair Maxwell has a strong personal opinion of the new ball. He calls it a cross between a ping-pong globule and a Mexican jumping bean...
...daylight. Federal officers raided it, arrested the proprietress and three bartenders. Visitors to her Mecca of Merriment last week saw Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed murals of toping fauns and bare-breasted ladies had been installed. Cabaret entertainment, dancing and games were provided without cover charge. Payment for refreshments were arranged, as in her "former place," by selling books of $1 tickets, one (or more...
...suggested during the meeting that a committee be appointed to undertake the purchase of a reliable Ping Pong outfit. For some time the discussion raged, as the issue seemed an important one. Finally the motion was overthrown. The winning argument was that a Ping-Pong set would make too much noise...
...citizens who are weary of bridge, ping-pong, cards-in-the-hat, yet who cannot endure the strain of an evening without a game in some form, were last week offered a new and original pastime invented by so famed an author as Norman Angell, British economist and pacifist. Called The Money Game and published by E. P. Dutton & Co. in the unique form of an explanatory book bound with a box of cards, the new entertainment purports to combine the thrill of cards with instruction in finance...
After the committees have been selected, the members will meet with proctors of the dormitories periodically to discuss problems and questions for the improvement of the halls. Besides attending to such matters as procuring ping-pong tables, victrolas, or radios, the members of the committee will collect money from each man in the dormitory as a fund with which to arrange for dormitory smokers, and provide magazines for the common rooms...