Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London screaming red placards reading "WELCOME EMPEROR!" had been pasted on delivery vans by Labor and Liberal newsorgans but, taking their cue from their Government, Conservative London papers did their best to ignore Haile Selassie, tucked news that he was coming into obscure squibs. Nevertheless, 5,000 unofficial welcomers rushed to Waterloo Station. Among them were Chinese, Hindus, Arabs and Negroes, cheek by jowl with English of every class, including pink-cheeked gentlemen in high silk hats and ladies, some of whom waved simultaneously the British and Ethiopian flags as the private Pullman car of Haile Selassie drew...
Expert billiard players, disgusted with ordinary billiards because it is so easy, have never ceased devising harder variations. Three-cushion billiards, in which the cue ball must touch three cushions before completing a carom, is the most difficult of all. As a swimmer, Lee specialized in long distance, won the U. S. championship five times. Because of his swimming prowess he was asked to join the New York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest...
Taking the cue from Dr. Rice, the huge, proletarian New York Daily News forthwith launched an editorial campaign. It was criminal and foolish, said the News, to withhold from the public a full & free knowledge of venereal prophylaxis. The News soon discovered that the subject was alive with reader interest. Many of the paper's 2,900,000 purchasers wrote in to praise it for frankness and public spirit. Others denounced the paper for encouraging immorality. And a few News readers told how they had contracted tragic ailments for want of proper information...
...Chinese cue was forced on the Chinese 292 years ago by their Manchu conquerors as a badge of subjection. Last December one of the last old-fashioned cues in the Orient, dangling from the head of the Inner Mongol leader, Prince Te,* Prince of West Sunit, bobbed in puppet subjection to gifts of Japanese cash & guns. The Prince declared Inner Mongolia independent of the Chinese Government at Nanking...
...passing from Chinese to Japanese control and, if its people have a spokesman, he is bland, stocky Prince Te who goes often to Peiping, finding that the most comfortable place in which to haggle and compromise with the Japanese. One of the last Orientals to wear the old-fashioned cue, the Prince is of little more significance than a stuffed silk robe. Inner Mongolia is at the mercy of all its neighbors. Battle of the Temple. Outer Mongolia has been a Soviet Republic for twelve years and the only...