Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-cushion billiard championship. In his first match, against left-handed Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then he added five more points. But when he missed for ten innings in a row, Cochran tied the score. It was tied again at 48, at 49. De Oro finally clicked off the winning point...
Cochran lit one cigaret after another while Layton, handling his cue with annoying deliberation, wiggling his pale eye brows with conscious archness, worked his score up to 7 before Cochran had made his first billiard. Twenty innings passed before Cochran could make two points in a row. Then he got a run of four but Layton was ahead, 29-to-9. When the crowd grew noisy, dawdling, red-faced Layton walked to his chair and waited for silence. When Cochran demanded new balls, Layton insisted on the old ones, compromised by keeping his cueball, letting the other two be replaced...
...deportation, the Minister of Interior against. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was on the fence. The spell of cold, wet weather Greece has been having decided the argument. Premier Tsaldaris announced that "in the present inclement weather, it would be murder to deport Mr. Insull unless his health improves." Given his cue, Insull's Greek lawyer moaned: "It is impossible to imagine Mr. Insull traveling. He is practically dying as it is." His Greek doctor confined himself to: "Condition aggravated." In other words the Greek Government was ready to let him remain so long as he stayed in bed. But Ambassador...
...nature of those measures was last week described to the same Congress by Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, President of the Supreme Economic Council, who boasted that the U. S. S. R. had produced "many more tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns in 1933 than in 1932." Taking his cue from his leader, Comrade Ordzhonikidze cried: "If these swines' noses compel our industry to mobilize to arm our Red troops, I think we will do it with more strength and more successfully than we have ever done anything before...
...faced the same problem that harried the U. S. Comptroller of Currency and all State banking officials night & day throughout the Depression-to close or not to close. His problem was more acute because if he closed one company he would have had, in fairness, to close all. The cue from Washington was clearly not to close, and his experts reminded him that the mortgage companies had ridden out every previous depression on the anchor of the 18-month clause. Close he did not, and final judgment on his wisdom awaits the time when historians finish with the ways...