Word: chessman
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...suddenly there is a alarming multiplication of yellow and black terrors. There is his constant desire for the compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility of bigness. "Salzburg lay changed beneath them the castle was as tiny as a chessman the tossing shapes of the Baroque Kollibien Kirche so frightening from his windows seemed quaint and harmless here." And there is his instinctive impulse to divide personalities from their physical appurtenances, with the feeling of a preconceived ability to dispose of these forms within their foreordained niches. The overwhelming ramifications...
Like an ivory chessman smashed by a petulant master the career of a young Spanish politician snapped in two last week, when Dictator General Primo de Rivera demanded his resignation and received it in a loosely oval hand...
...last king fell; the last knight rode out in a desperate and vain sortie, defying the white death that comes in the end to the gallantest chevalier and the most stubborn chessman. The gods who had directed the battles-chessplayers, the most famous in the world-put on their neat traveling clothes and left Moscow. The International Tournament, which had endured for six weeks, was over. The winner? There was no excitement about that. E. Bogoljubow, modest Russian, clinched first prize days before the end. Statuvolent Dr. Emanuel Lasker was second, as had been expected; José R. Capablanca (TIME...
...World's Series baseball game, The New York Times ignorantly referred to me as ' champion at chess.' The Times reporter doubtless confused me with Emanuel Lasker, of Germany, former world's chess champion, or with Edward Lasker, German-Polish Jew, now of Chicago, Master Chessman...
...Brennan and Miss Kent, A. T. Bunten and Miss Booth, R. T. Davis and Miss Cambell, W. R. Dewey, Jr., (chairman) and Miss Chessman, P. Lord and Miss Breed, E. H. Marrett and Miss Marrett, L. B. Moore and Miss Owen, W. S. Sagar and Miss Sargent, L. C. Stowell and Miss Smith...