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Word: cues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Felix Caldwell and tall, light-colored Hunter Newson. All respect Mr. Warner as their chief, even in the matter of billiards, which is their common pastime off duty. None of "the men he runs with" (i. e. Century colleagues) can match Mr. Warner for calmness and accuracy with a cue. His record billiard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Warner's aptness with a billiard cue is doubtless partly due to his health. Never has he needed a doctor since the hour of his birth. His aptness at taking cues from passengers is unquestionably due to the 38 years he has spent at that major study of all Pullman porters, Human Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...thus deprive the White House cheif of justice? It is a hazardous guess but there is a possibility that the Garbo is comparatively wan at the breakfast table that Milt Gross dispenses with his smott crecks, that Galli Curei temporarily quits singing and that Hoppe regretfully lays aside the cue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THERE ARE TIMES | 5/21/1927 | See Source »

Obviously, Chiang's cue was to secure the return of Wang whose views are consonant with his own; and then to launch a political campaign to consolidate the Nationalists around Chiang and Wang, both of whom enjoy considerable prestige as men close to the late Dr. Sun in his last years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wang | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Felix Grange, outstanding European billiardist, journeyed to the U. S.; entered the world's 18.2 balkline tournament in Washington, D. C. Last week, while practicing, he threw his cue aside in disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wine | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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