Word: croqueted
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...Beauchamp had no gun, but he is a croquet expert. In the back seat of his car was a croquet mallet. Raising this on high he edged close to the thrashing, snorting creature and resolutely bashed it on the head until dead. Far from earning him a reputation for brutality, the exploit, reported the Gazette, "has made him the hero of the district and his home the Mecca for sightseers from miles around...
...moths (Ennomos subsignarius) of the measuring-worm or elm-span family (Geometridae). In the caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week's wind blew from northern New York. Linden...
...Named for Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681-1741), Danish navigator, ancestor of Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring, 63, able Des Moines diagnostician, "dean of Iowa physicians," much sought dinner guest, skilled croquet-player, recently a nominee for the presidency of the American Medical Association...
...years ago, graduated from Southern Methodist University before going to Yale. Twice he has won prizes for the Beaux Arts Ball program cover. His winning canvas is entitled Sunday Afternoon. It shows a U. S. family of the Iron Stag era grouped round a little ornamental fountain on a croquet lawn. The models this time have all their clothes on. The painting has considerably more humor than most Prix de Rome projects. But there remain the same studio attitudes of the figures, the same theatrical treatment of background. Critics found it still a little Savage. To those...
...Luxembourg Gardens, close by the alley where bad-tempered old gentlemen play frenzied croquet every Sunday, a new Punch & Judy show was operating last week with the consent and approval of the Senate of the French Republic. For years the root-te-tooting of the Luxembourg's Guignol has been supplied by a marionettist known as M. Brioché. Recently elderly M. Brioché rang down his little curtain for the last time and died...