Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herr Strauss, I have been your publisher for 30 years, but after the telegram you sent me yesterday our relations are over, finished! Your terms are mad. [Click...
...click-clack ("snoogins") to cry out "Deliver!" on a triple slam...
...Click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. Welker Cochran, 30, Hollywood (Calif.) realtor, had won the international 18.2 balkline billiard tournament at Washington, D. C., turning back among others Willie Hoppe, defending champion, and M. Felix Grange, of France, who had missed his vin ordinaire (TIME, March...
...garrison, that fort, this ship, that dye factory, to see that armament was not being amassed contrary to the Treaty of Versailles. While the so potent officers have been motoring up and down the land, their headquarters, the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission at Berlin, has hummed with the click of typewriters, and reverberated to the tread of generals. All this has cost Germans a pretty penny? $15,000,000 in money and much in wounded pride. It was swept away last week. And one of the Allied officers, an Italian, who could not bear to give up the dignity...
...evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline billiard champion of the world before he had a beard, now challenger to the German, Eric Hagenlacher, he was making a final effort to get his championship. After a run of 23 he failed. Hagenlacher, very pale, began to click his white ivory ball against another white ivory ball and a red ivory ball. He made a run of 283, his best run of the evening. Hoppe could not keep the balls together as he could when he was a boy and the marvel of the country, but making long...