Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly-are variations of this Green game, but experts shun them. Very serious and sleek in his neat tuxedo, his dead-white face immobile as plaster in the strong light, his oiled hair shining like paint, Ralph Greenleaf made run after run. Once he annoyed Rudolph who, having just missed his 24th shot, complained that Greenleaf had disturbed him by walking around. The referee said he had not noticed it. Greenleaf...
...excessively ugly, good-humored and unambitious Peregrine ("Pithecanthropus") Smith, on a fortnight's pedestrian holiday from his police duties, meets up with an aggressive young Scottish engineer. They set out to cross Dukesmoor together in a thick fog. From the window of the moorland house a face watches them menacingly. Through the fog comes faintly the tolling of a bell-a convict has escaped! At Oakmere Pool lies the dead body of a man, stripped to his underclothes. . . . Thus this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with...
...dignified, quiet, old gentleman, his flamboyant white mustache seems entirely extraneous to the pale melancholy face behind it. Old age and ill health were the reasons for his retirement last week. It is axiomatic that a republic must have a president, however impotent...
Boston Bruins. The present champions, and still apparently the best team in the League. Strong on the defense, fast on the offense, fortified everywhere by Eddie ("Shining") Shore, loose-jointed and heavy-hipped, who with a sad look on his pale, wide face spills opponents ferociously...
That such a tremendous company should again face depression indicated to British financiers that the "Lord of the Seven Seas" had placed his K upon some orders that were unwise. Especially did this seem plausible in view of the belief that Lord Kylsant is paid not a salary nor a percentage of the profits, but a percentage of the gross. Thus more ships, more lines, terrific expansion, would have brought more pounds sterling into the Kylsant coffers even if they brought less to the Royal Mail treasury. And, according to Scandal, last week's trouble indicated that of late...