Word: malleting
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...great croquet parties. There he gathers his disciples?Arthur Krock, F. P. Adams, Heywood Broun and other able members of the World staff, a few millionaires, a few artists, the centurions of the "400," an occasional ambassador. With them as gallery he demonstrates his remarkable proficiency with the croquet mallet, always holding the center of the stage With the loudest voice, the most daring epithet, the most active mind. His luncheon guests came. He picked three of them?Judge O'Brien, Joseph P. Day, George E. Smith to head committees ? "Self -Appointed Citizens...
...Mailman. A very small and energetic group of citizens are intent upon rousing the large and lethargic population to the rescue of its postal servants. Apparently mailmen are distressingly underpaid, overworked and ill provided for by pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...
...dial consists of a great gong, under which there are a certain number of human bones and skulls. When the hands point to one o'clock some of the bones unite to form a skeleton which?actuated by hidden mechanism?springs to its feet, seizes a wooden mallet and strikes the gong a single blow. The skeleton than collapses into pieces...
...YORK, N. Y., May 8.--Although showing superior team work the University R. O. T. C. polo team went down to defeat by the score of 12-2 before the far better individual mallet work of the Norwich horsemen on the polo field at Fort Hamilton this afternoon. The Crimson goals were scored by P. S. Sprague '24 and F. D. Stranahan '26. Before the match Phineas Shaw Sprague of Boston was elected captain of the team...
...players on the University R. O. T. C. polo squad have had any previous experience with the exception of H. S. Clark 2E.S., who played on the offense at Norwich, but who is ineligible to compete in the team's matches. The team's skill with the mallet has been derived entirely from practice games since the first of April...