Word: cues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Sinclair tried to get Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, the man who got Oilman Doheny acquitted, to replace Lawyer Littleton this time, Lawyer Littleton gave no sign of hurt feelings. When the new trial opened, there he sat, slightly apart from the rest, like an opera tenor awaiting his cue. Lawyer George P. Hoover, a subordinate, introduced him in full court to Justice Bailey. Lawyer Littleton stood up and made as deep a bow as his comfortable figure would permit. Then he sat down again, pursing his lips and looking at the jury with amiable indulgence. The trial began...
...nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against the two balls he is trying to keep against the cushion. When will he miss? Last week in San Francisco Edouard Horemans of Belgium shot 248 times, then stood aside for Jacob Schacfer to shoot...
Schaefer, who had been chalking his cue nervously while Horemans shot, bent over the table. With a few beautiful billiards he brought the balls, scattered when Horemans broke his run, into a position in the corner. He began a run, playing as smoothly as if he were unconscious of the concentration of hundreds of eyes and minds on the green table and on that spot in the table where his fingers rested holding the cue. He made fifty, seventy-five, eighty, eighty-five-and then, when it seemed as if he could have gone on making shots like a machine...
...speeches from the press galleries. It is possible, however, that the reporters regretted the necessity of publishing the words which so plainly signified a lack of tact on the part of the Senator from Alabama, but in the last extremity they can plead that he gave them no cue that his condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations and innuendos it was not their duty to separate the wheat from the chaff. Indeed, if senatorial "fun" of Senator Heflin's brand can be checked...
This is not, as are so many others, just one of those days. Came Friday and at the same time came the thirteenth of the month; the cue is for lightning flashes, thunder spurts, and a darkened stage. Today finds sable felines at a premium, unbreakable mirrors going up, and ladders being trusted only when in a horizontal position. And the headline writers clap hands in glee as they realize that Mrs. Snyder's demise will coincide with the most ominous of days...