Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They tried batting left handed. They tried batting loft handed with one hand. They tried running backwards. They tried running backwards on one leg. Eventually they got around to using the bat as a billiard cue and fielding the ball from the tail...
...love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...
Respectable Woman. To keep abreast of the woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
...yowl of anguish shook the rafters. Miss Sylva valiantly spoke the moderately funny lines for which the banana business had been a cue, but they were completely drowned in the hubbub. A perfectly good banana had been sacrificed to make-believe...
...Toughest sound to fake is applause. And no hocus-pocus has yet matched the true click of a closing door. Result: studios keep large collections of various-sized doors to open & shut on cue...