Word: croqueted
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...people a day swarmed through the exhibition, which was already turning out to be the most popular in Gump's 91-year history. The first pictures to go were an 18th Century engraving of two cupids making a prim stab at golf, and four Victorian prints celebrating croquet, bathing, archery and rowing. Beamed Impresario Gump: "We've taken sporting art out of the box seats and moved it into the bleachers...
Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the croquet-balls were live hedgehogs, and the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and stand on their hands and feet to make the arches...
...normal boredom been restored, when the Russians this week announced a general walkout from all U.N. agencies and committees. The strike was to continue until the Chinese Nationalists were turned out of U.N. Everybody fluttered the rule books again. Not in months had the Lake Success croquet-ground seen such a scurrying of hedgehogs, such a squirming of flamingoes...
...Thames is shattered by frequent impromptu quartets. Red Top musicals are more reminiscent of the corner barber shop than of the opera house, but they do break up the pre-race tension. Then too, Burt Haines, Bolles' venerable assistant, has more time to take the boys over at croquet. Charley Morgan, the varsity manager, complains, "Burt plays like that lawn was a billiard table...
Charley has other worries besides Haines' skill at croquet. He is waiting for Milton Caniff's annual drawing. Each year, the creator of Terry and the Pirates and the present author of Steve Canyon sends the Harvard crew a drawing of one of his scantily clad lovelies for a good luck token. He informed Morgan that this year's drawing was in the works. But it hasn't arrived at Red Top yet and Morgan is looking for it in each mail. Superstitution or not, this Harvard outfit isn't overlooking a bet for Friday. After all, this...