Word: croqueted
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...Croquet...
...hundreds of letters-enough unpublished material to fill 18 thick volumes. As the years passed, the castle continued its yield: Johnson's diary turned up in the strong room, and the entire manuscript of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was discovered in an old croquet...
When the going got too tough, the Secretary stole away for a game of croquet. He liked occasionally to putt around a golf green but croquet was his favorite relaxation. "[It] may seem namby-pamby but it is really a very scientific game," he wrote. He became very expert and once beat the champion "of a certain section of the United States." But in his last years at State, he had to give up the game. "My doctor required me to taper off, which probably proves that it is more strenuous than most people think...
People are his hobby. "People relax me." For exercise he pitches horseshoes and, a little shamefacedly, plays croquet. He misses the rides he used to take through the Tennessee Valley on his bay gelding, "Mac." He misses gardening. Though there is plenty of room on the five-acre farm the Lilienthals have rented at Rockville, Md., he no longer has time for that kind of gardening...
...better. He showed up at Malahide Castle in person, got on well with the family, in 1927 came away with the Malahide Papers for a rumored $300,000 to $500,000 (TIME, March 9, 1936). Three years later he got another batch that Lady Talbot discovered in an old croquet box. She had carefully inked out all of Boswell's uninhibited indiscretions, gave experts the 18-month job of restoring the deletions. Not until the mid-'30s were the Malahide Papers issued, in a $900 limited edition of 570 18-volume sets...