Word: croqueted
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...Cordell Hull, slightly stooped at 71, war has brought no athletic privation. He still plays a waspish game of croquet, still addresses his opponent's ball as Hitler or Mussolini before walloping...
...full payment that William Clatterbuck dealt out was five murders. In his first moment of rage he clubbed Morris Love, 58, to death with a croquet mallet, lying handy on the old front porch. When son James Love, 21, ran out of the house with a rifle, Clatterbuck disarmed him, shot him in the head, bashed his head with the gunstock for good measure. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot Mrs. Love through the heart, went on out to the barn. There he shot and clubbed the hired man and his wife, left them dead...
Said William Clatterbuck of his onetime friend: "I pleaded with him, but he said no. I saw the croquet set there...
...back at his Riversdale home by the next June, sleeping little, writing much, aging fast. His daughter Anne began to beat him at croquet. Down at the Abbey "it was rather sad to see [him] climb the stairs to the boardroom, stopping at the landing to recover breath so that he might make a lordly entrance as of old." He got out his final version of A Vision; his infinitely re-revised Collected Poems; his last book of verse (New Poems); his violent prose work On the Boiler, with its animadversions, scornfully antidemocratic as always, on popular education. Rilke...
...England since the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony, has no State Department rival save Under Secretary Sumner Welles for tall, aristocratic elegance. He was once Assistant Secretary of State, twice Under Secretary, served as Ambassador to Belgium and Italy, has been one of State Secretary Cordell Hull's croquet-playing cronies...