Word: croqueted
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...squad has a rest period during the early part of the afternoon, during which some took examinations, and the rest amused themselves with croquet and horse-shoes, which sports are becoming increasingly popular as a form of recreation. Towards evening the slight breeze which had been blowing during the middle of the day died down, and when the crews embarked for the second time the water conditions were admirable...
...atmosphere of the studios; but Paramount has marvelously subdued it?split polysyllabic heroics over it, decorated it with sentimental ribbons, trodden it with captions, tickled it with humor, has supplied it with brass bands and flags and letters from home and photographs of the explorers' children on the croquet lawns of Massachusetts?with everything except, by some unaccountable omission, 'love interest'? has in brief, found it snow and left it slush...
...chief interest ashore is in croquet; Captain Dickey and Coach Whiteside claim, unofficially, the camp championship, but are frequently defeated...
...House, St. Louis. Professor Thomas (whose parents wanted him to be a preacher) first published How to Mix Drinks in 1862. It quickly went through six large printings; Professor Thomas became a world-figure; it was said that President Grant, having quaffed the Professor's BLUE BLAZER after playing croquet, gave him a cigar...
...instructions from Sullivan) who pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...