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Hoppe believes that his ability to concentrate is another factor in his success. "From the time I take a cue in my hand," he said, "my mind is on nothing but the game. Incidentally, I have found that this not only helps my own game but operates as a sort of mental hazard to my opponents. An attitude of indifference toward the other fellow's game and an obvious confidence in your own, coupled with an extreme care in every shot, eventually forces him to the conclusion that you are in fallible and breaks down his morale...
...hundred dollars for every act of unsubordination. The bill runs high. Johns is subjected to every indignity, including a meeting with his flancee in his houseman's garb, until he arouses his master's suspicion by being polite. The discovery that the contract is illegal is a cue for everybody to rejoice and join, in the finale...
...this tall actor had each been beaten individually by U. S. Indoor Champion Rene Lacoste. But Actor-Champion William T. Tilden had little time for curtain calls in the Seventh Regiment Armory. Another public was waiting. What he needed was another taxi, more grease paint and a certain cue in That Smith...
...tongue. A translator informed the audience that Mr. Tomski had said that the Soviet had "relieved bankers of the burden of banks, land owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski had finished a motion was proposed to substitute orations in Esperanto, which nobody could understand for any further speeches in Russian...
...playing his regular game and that Lacoste was rising to stupendous heights. The little Frenchman, never a brilliant player, was at first so appalled to find himself facing the champion that Tilden had to retard his own strokes a trifle obviously in order to give him his cue, but once Lacoste had perceived what was wanted of him the drama moved forward with a steadily sharpening curve of emotion. Lacoste took the first set 6-3, the second 12-10. The champion now employed all of those hackneyed stage flourishes that mar his more fervid performances. Even as actors...