Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, had contained a pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward over the table, her veil slightly askew, while with her cue tucked under her arm she aimed swift and true for the corner pocket...
Just as dreams are the psychologist's cue to the structure of an individual personality, so rumor is a cue to the underlying morale of a nation. It reveals the conflicts, latent hostilities, wishes and fears of the people...
...claborate instructions about who to follow and where to stand and he spent most of the evening trying to memorize them. The leader in his game of follow-the-leader was a petulant Italian who repeated his commands some six times. Then about thirty seconds before his cue. Wade got nervous...
...solved the boiler question by walking out of the room. As long as we were in costume nobody bothered us. We could go anywhere backstage and people ignored us. I guess they figured we were luminaries or were trying to catch an 8:40 cue. Anyhow, led by the adventursome Newman, who seems to be endowed with an inquisitive mind, the half dozen of us Harvard men paraded through the Maginot-like corridors of the Metropolitan backstage. Behind us trailed the three dozen supers from the other colleges, figuring, I suppose, that we knew where we were going. We walked...
Pool shark is a title distasteful to most women. But Ruth ("Lefty") McGinnis, 30-year-old daughter of a Honesdale, Pa. barber, is proud of her ability with a cue. When she was only ten, little Ruthie could pocket 15 balls in succession,, barnstormed with Champion Ralph Greenleaf as an "added attraction" to his act. A few years ago, during an exhibition on a substandard table (4½ by 9), Miss McGinnis made a run of 128. World's record on a standard table...