Word: croqueted
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Neysa McMein, artist, croquet expert, returned on the Aquitania to report the progress of the game in France. Said Miss McMein: "Croquet is now the vogue among the smart set. Americans are busy playing it. Dukes and princes . . . play badly...
...mother of two sons who died in the War, had very little money; she had to sell the book her friend had given her. Going away from Sotheby's auction rooms, she looked as startled as the other Alice might have looked on the Queen's Croquet Ground...
...example, a man in red flannels might try while brushing his teeth to paddle, with a croquet mallet, a canoe down the diagonal walk at noon. Such behavior, if it became customary, might need very mild and gentle restriction...
...Bridge, checkers, croquet, knitting, or other boisterous sports...
Polo Facts. Polo mallets are croquet mallets, extremely stretched. The long handles are of flexible bamboo and the head of wood. It is the erroneous impression of many people, even after witnessing a game, that the ball (wood, about indoor baseball size) is hit with the nose of the mallet. This would be practically impossible; the nose of a polo mallet is not two inches in diameter. The ball is hit with the side of the mallet, preferably just where the handle joins. When it is hit between the goal posts at the end of the field (flat turf...