Word: billiards
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...field of American life is as bare of the Church as a billiard table of a centerpiece...
They tried batting left handed. They tried batting loft handed with one hand. They tried running backwards. They tried running backwards on one leg. Eventually they got around to using the bat as a billiard cue and fielding the ball from the tail...
...sedate congressional committee room rang last week with the din of intercollegiate battle. The House Naval Affairs Committee, under the watchful eye of billiard-bald Chairman Carl Vinson, sat, looked and listened. Tiny, ancient, impoverished St. John's College was defending its 160-year-old campus against the predatory onslaught of its huge wealthy neighbor, the U.S. Naval Academy...
...Down? While Japanese were obligingly suggesting names for war criminals-among them Shigemitsu, Konoye and Umezu - the No. 1 Japanese war criminal of them all, billiard-bald, razor-tongued Hideki Tojo, who as Premier led his people to war on December 7, 1941, took matters into his own hands. The day after two Associated Press correspondents forced their way into his house for an interview, U.S. Army intelligence officers turned up to take Tojo away for questioning. The irate warmonger made faces at them througlf a window, retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations...
Composers, athletes, billiard champions, authors, male cinema stars, philosophers, explorers, painters, scientists all achieve their top performances in their early thirties. This discouraging news for ambitious oldsters of 40 was reported by Psycholo gist Harvey C. Lehman of Ohio University in the current Scientific Monthly...