Word: chessmen
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...house on Sparks St." Like Sir Christopher Wren, Wilbur Cortez Abbott has builded his own monument. Within the walls of 74 Sparks St. he has assembled all the evidence that one could need for an analysis of his mental processes. He has a beautiful collection of unused chessmen; sundry gargoyles stare out from his walls; there is a mug used at Nicky's coronation; framed on the wall hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish Scimitar; and over there, in a glass case, is a death mask...
...Miss Elizabeth Wray. Named, for no particular reason, after King Arthur's hometown, Camelot was invented three years ago by George Swinnerton Parker, head of Parker Bros. of Salem, Mass., who manufacture more games than anyone else in the U.S. Camelot is played with pieces resembling pawn chessmen on an irregularly checkered board. It comes in "editions" of which Parker Bros. say they have sold...
...match lasting from 2.15 Saturday afternoon until S o'clock in the evening the Class of 1934 chessmen defeated by a score of three to two the Exeter Academy team. The match was played at the Harvard Union and was characterized by slow long drawn out games, although A. R. Esten of Harvard defeated Dorson of Exeter in a brilliant game of only 14 mores...
...suffice to carry the horsemen to intercollegiate championships. Possibly, at some date not so far in the future, the steps of Sezer Hall at class time may be thronged with sweat-shirted students swinging baseball bats, tennis and squash rackets, javelins, 16-pound weights, lacrosse sticks, soccer balls, and chessmen...
...King-Emperor moved three chessmen upon the board of State, and in a flash one was taken by an unseen player, Death. The coincidence, startling, roused keen interest in the three august chessmen...