Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courtly Ways. The two men faced each other across a net that sagged fearfully in the center. That was the way the net sagged when two monks began banging a ball around the courtyard of a French monastery some 700 years ago, and the sag hadn't changed. Neither had the court, very much-it still had most of the features of the old courtyard the monks used. On three sides, a sloping roof (called penthouse) was a memento of the monastery's cow sheds...
When the match began, Phipps spun his serve along the cowshed roof. The ball (about as hard as a baseball with a tennis-ball covering) skidded into a corner and Pierre scooped it out with an underhand chop stroke...
...most part the game was played and scored like tennis. But there were also openings along the cowshed walls, which the players had to defend like goalies. If the server during play hit the ball into either of two small openings (the grille and winning gallery) it counted a point for him. The receiver had one wide opening (the dedans) to aim for. If either put a ball through the other side openings it counted against him. It was a game that required skill even more than stamina. The first day, Pierre, the old master...
...nearly all. The guests roamed over the hotel's 6,500 manicured acres, rode over its 200 miles of bridle paths, played golf on its three courses, lounged in rooms that will cost paying customers from $17 to $65 a day. The windup was a glittering ball in the chandelier-hung ballroom. At its height, the Duke of Windsor, a good amateur hand at the drums, joined Meyer Davis's band and beat the skins (How Are Things in Glocca Morra?) as he did when he visited Greenbrier 29 years...
Eisler, an avowed Communist, has recently been convicted of passport violations and contempt of the Un-American Committee. He is now out on ball pending the outcome of his appeal...