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Word: cues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlie Peterson of St. Louis, world champion fancy shot billiard artist, will demonstrate some of his uncanny cue feats before members of the Freshman Class in the Union Billiard room at 3 o'clock this afternoon. One of Peterson's well known tricks consists of hitting the ball with enough English so that it strikes one cushion six times. Peterson is lining up college players for the third annual intercollegiate billiard championship, which gets under way early next month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peterson, Billiard Wizard, To Entertain Union Today | 1/19/1934 | See Source »

...well developed art in burlesque," said the girlesque queen. "And as for vulgarity, I have seen musical comedies on Broadway that are more vulgar than any show I've ever played in." Asked whether she received many mash notes from members of the audience at her shows, the birly-cue actress said. "Of course I do. Every girl in the 'honkytonk' gets lots of them. And you know, it's a funny thing, but a good number of theme come from college fellows. I guess other men must know better. I never answer these notes only in a few exceptional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "It's Better to be a Big Shake in a Kootch Show Than a Little Wiggle in Hollywood," Says Corio | 1/12/1934 | See Source »

...scene was Rigoletto's courtyard, just as it was eight years ago at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. The same girl stood in the wings, calmly waiting her cue. But the cue last week, as it did eight years ago, meant more than just running on stage and singing a duet with the hunchbacked jester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kansan's Comeback | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...signs were unnecessary, for excited spectators hardly dared to breathe. The players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel mill and playing a violin in a cinema house, held the world's championship title in 1927 and 1930. Ponzi is an Italian whose greying black hair belies his 30 years. High-strung' always ready to take chances on the table, Ponzi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Lucy Randolph Mason, general secretary of the National Consumers' League . . . said that she had been so impressed by Governor Winant's address that although I've never voted the Republican ticket I'd like to turn Mugwump and nominate him for President.' " Taking the cue, the Times man covering the address apostrophized the speaker as one "who has been mentioned for the Republican nomination for the Presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Winant Boomlet | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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