Word: billiard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixed crowd jammed the three sides of Mussey's amphitheatre on Chicago's South Wabash Avenue one night last week to watch two men in dinner jackets and soft shirts play for the pocket billiard (pool) championship of the world. "Quiet Please" signs were unnecessary, for excited spectators hardly dared to breathe. The players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel...
...vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican momentum to its original Democratic impetus, McKee's cueball had already clicked off O'Brien's white-ball, was rolling toward LaGuardia's redball. It looked as though a Hooverite kiss would make a Rooseveltian billiard. Wall street was betting 2-to-1 it would...
Since lice are well known to transmit typhus, Santiago went in for city-wide delousing. Theatres were disinfected every night. So were dance halls, until Santiago authorities reflected that slow, intimate Chilean tangoes would be just right for spreading typhus. Abruptly all dance halls, billiard parlors and swimming pools in the capital were closed...
...butcher on the quiet street who finally sells the broiler, should he escape all his other criminal hazards, probably has his district and his customers and his wholesaler assigned him by poultry racketeers. In The Bronx, one night early last month, police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues against plate glass and fixtures, hurriedly releasing crates of fowl at the market of S. S. & B. Poultry Corp. The hoodlums were arrested, arraigned for trial last week. Soon the S. S. & B.'s proprietors - Hyman Blank, Samuel Shipper and Samuel Weiner, whose business had already been chased...
...Union. The committee will take over the task of arranging for entertainment, refreshments, and souvenirs for the traditional social affair. The only plans released to date include speeches by the Freshman officers, and the award of silver trophics by the Class President to the winners of the Pingpong, Billiard and Pool Tournaments now being held at the Union...