Word: croqueted
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...Croquet's very well for young ladies and boys...
...Hudson, N.Y. with his wife, two children and "the biggest dog in the world" (a 180-lb. Newfoundland), has one consuming pastime that well fits his gentle nature if not his size (6 ft., 175 Ibs.). As often as he can, he plays his own complicated brand of croquet. Says he: "Golf and bowling require no brains at all. Croquet is a game of skill and brains-forgotten in all these years...
...Washington.) Kramer's old lathe and grindstone still hummed their gentle songs, and his work went on. Almost no one came to visit him except the scientists who ordered his instruments. "I enjoyed my work," says Kramer. "It was very quiet." For amusement he played roque, a croquet-like game that has been almost forgotten. When he could no longer find roque players, he learned to bowl...
...Franklin Roosevelt's day, Dunn became a special assistant to, and croquet-playing friend of Secretary of State Hull. During the Spanish Civil War, as Hull's respected political adviser in European affairs, he was a powerful influence in holding U.S. policy to an embargo on arms for both sides in Spain-to the chagrin of the U.S. left wing. Secretary of State Stettinius appointed him Assistant Secretary in 1944, and he was started on his ambassadorial round-to Italy...
Shakespeare's tale of the King of Navarre and three young lords who forswear women for study, only for the Princess of France and three young ladies to come calling, is all satiric sideshows and sashayings, mixups and false beards. In the present production, the frills are multiplied-croquet games, early gramophones and automobiles, tea on the lawn, pink coats and blazers. At the start it seems rather chichi and cute, but in time it creates, and sustains, a genuine atmosphere...