Word: croqueted
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...many Americans who don't know what they are talking about, cricket is a British eccentricity hardly less pansy than croquet. Americans condemn the game because it moves too leisurely, has too much ritualistic etiquette, and the players actually knock off for tea at 4 o'clock. One ex-G.I. who had seen a game summed up: "Believe me, in New York we'd have thrown pop bottles just to wake things...
...Irish. In the imperial scheme cricket has followed the flag (some Englishmen argue that there would have been no Irish problem if the Irish could have been induced to learn the game). And, contrary to U.S. curbstone opinion, cricket is not to be confused with croquet...
...instruction, vacation Bible schools, a 15-minute Sunday night radio program over Morgantown's station WAJR. The Smiths established a 3,500-volume library in the Shack (Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President sent some books). Scotts Run small fry and bobby-soxers use the Shack for archery, croquet, ping-pong, dances ("We've got a juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ...
Activities of the twenty-fifth reunion class will get off to an athletic start today with golf, tennis, softball, croquet, swimming, sun bathing, and launch trips at the Essex County Club, Manchester. A memorial service in Memorial Church, the Yale baseball game, dinner, and a dance are on tomorrow's program, with Commencement Exercises, a noon spread, alumni exercises, and tea completing festivities Thursday...
...enthusiasm. "My dear Smyser, Your charming letter received. . . . We enjoyed our straw-ride very much. I ate a bag of candy, a bag of peanuts, 2 bars of popcorn, a glass of Huyler's ice-cream soda, a chocolate Milk-Shake. . . . I have played over 300 games of croquet. . . . I have just finished the fourth of seven pincushions I am emboidering (don't consider spelling). . . . It is sweet to be remembered...