Word: cues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time was when even famed players could not score thus monotonously. Cushions were made of wood or cloth stuffed with hair; balls caromed crazily. Tablebeds were wood; cues wood untipped. With these and cruder implements billiards was played for many centuries; references to its ancestry are found in Shakespeare and stories of the Crusades. About 100 years ago leather cue tips; stone table beds; and rubber cushions clustered to change the game. In 1854 one Michael Phelan contrived an improved cushion; became first U. S. champion. Many masters have succeeded him. Today great players are Edouard Horemans, Belgium; Eric Hagenlacher...
...Work of this nature," he said, "is naturally difficult, and requires a lot of the students time, for he must rehearse as well as act." He may only have one or two lines in an entire performance, but while he is waiting for his cue, he will also be listening to the principals and observing how they act, and in this way will receive the best part of his training...
...first performance of the play ran very smoothly up to the part where the villain fired at the hero. This being the hero's cue he said as instructed. "My goodness. I'm shot!" But the feeling a warm trickle down his side, and mistaking it for a trickle of blood, cried, "--* --,* I AM shot! ! ! !" When a man is in danger or facing terrible torture, e. g. reading a Fashion Sheet Page, it is natural that he call upon the Deity. If you publish this letter it would be natural for me to exclaim, "God save me from...
...Defense Cue From Austerlitz...
...first man to shake Signor de Pinedo's hand and to plant a kiss upon Signor de Pinedo's cheek was Premier Benito Mussolini, august upon a barge on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The people on the beach, taking their cue, applauded loudly, cheered lustily...