Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dust, chalk, clay, bad weather make teaching hard on clothes. (Use a whisk-broom, towel, shoebrush...
...dignity did not permit him to emulate his confreres who, before a match, changed their dinner coats for black silk playing jackets. He wore his evening clothes throughout the tournament, entranced spectators by the suave and cautious ritual with which he filed his cue-point, sandpapered it, chalked it, then powdered his sharp-fingered hands. Only once was Greenleaf ruffled. That was in his seventh match when he missed his favorite cube of chalk. Puzzled, he asked his opponent, Andrew Ponzi, if he had seen it anywhere. ''I'm not sure!" said Ponzi, then produced it from...
...loved of all civic clubbers, and from over the room came a shower of cards bearing the same admonition: "KEEP SMILING." Keep smiling the delegates did through ever-accumulating evidence that even the service club industry must needs adjust itself to a reduced income. A speaker neatly manipulated chalk and eraser to convert DEPRESSION into PRESS ON; from others came vague assurances that business is upping, but in its final meeting the convention adopted a significant report recommending drastic economies in club operation, euphemistically referring to "this period of men tal and spiritual unrest." ROBERT L. HUTCHISON Joplin, Mo. Dirt...
...Writers on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune used to chalk up on a blackboard each silly question that one staff member asked another. High man for the week was supposed to stand his contemporaries a drink or drinks. No living man ever scored highest, however...
...Marine Corps, veteran of Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, World War battles; in a landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...