Word: billiard
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...because she approves of such racy authors as "Chaucer, Rabelais and Balzac." In this setting of cornfield provincialism, the Music Man decides to stir up a little trouble to distract attention from his own shenanigans. His horrifying revelation to the townspeople: a pool table has been installed in the billiard parlor...
...Rolls-Royce ("half vermouth, quarter whisky, quarter gin, dash of orange bitters") followed by a Chauffeur ("one-third vermouth, one-third whisky, one-third gin, dash of Angostura"). At first day's end. a cocktail-shaken Charlie, decked in Mariette's pajamas, goes to sleep on the billiard table while cooing sweet nothings to the billiard ball in the corner pocket...
...brow darkened. "Mister, we may be foreign students, midwestern plains boys, and Bronx yoyos--wonks, if you will. We know we don't have much of a place in the clubrooms or at the billiard tables. But our place is here, worrying about the future, concerned about bombs and the men who push the buttons. You see, we're doing something. We care." He brushed away a tear...
...morning last week, in his 25-room Palm Beach mansion, where he spent three months each year, Bob Young started his day in routine fashion. He finished breakfast, casually went upstairs to the third-floor billiard room, where he usually played each day after breakfast. But instead of playing billiards, Bob Young took a double-barreled 20-gauge shotgun and sat in a chair. Carefully he set the gun between his knees, placed the barrels against his head, and pulled both triggers. He left no note, and shocked friends could only ask in amazement: "Why?" But close associates could readily...
Festooned with paper streamers that almost gave the scene an air of capitalist merriment, Poland's billiard-bald Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and his pearl-neck-laced Actress-Wife Nina danced without much abandon. Their restrained revelry did little to heat up a state ball on the first night of this year's Warsaw Carnival...