Word: billiard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, hard soil for evangelism. In 1880, General Booth's devoted and indefatigable disciple, George Scott Railton,* had landed in Manhattan at the head of seven female soldiers. He moved into Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theater, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery and started to preach. But America, like England, received the hosts of William Booth with hostility...
Died. George Franklin Slosson, 95, for half a century after the Civil War one of the world's top billiard players who won, with his 50? cue, six international titles between 1877 and 1908; in Boston...
...corner barber shop than of the opera house, but they do break up the pre-race tension. Then too, Burt Haines, Bolles' venerable assistant, has more time to take the boys over at croquet. Charley Morgan, the varsity manager, complains, "Burt plays like that lawn was a billiard table...
Coach Jack Barnaby has juggled his lineup a bit since the end of the vacation trip. Billiard Hughes, formerly number five man, will move up to number four on the basis of his victories in the Army and Navy matches. Jack Frey drops down to Hughes' old number five position...
...these who like to play their poollate at night, the Harvard Billiard Room opening sometime next week will provide accommodations. Located directly underneath the newly opened Sea Grille on Holyoke Street the "billiard parlor," as its owner, Charles LaBreck prefers to call it, will have approximately eight tables...