Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return the Socialists, who as the second largest party have a traditional right to fill the post of first Vice President of the Diet, agreed last week to the pop ping into that post of a Nationalist. Herr Wolfgang von Kries, tolerably acceptable to the Fascists. In logic there was "no sense" to this arrangement, but as a practical compromise it cleared the Prussian air. Herr Hitler seemed to assume that on July 31 his Fascists will score such a smashing victory nationally that opposition in the Prussian Diet will have to give way, thus ushering in a Fascist Premier...
Other candidates for phenomenon are: Australia's Jack Crawford, fireball player of the 1928 and 1930 Davis Cup matches; England's Frederick J. Perry, unbeaten ping pong player, Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin and C. R. D. Tuckey, British Army mystery man, a harder hitter than the other Englishmen...
...Wenching and 255 other able ping-pong players last week assembled in Manhattan for the second annual U. S. championship. The matches were played in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Among the 1,000 spectators was Bridge Expert Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved...
...early rounds, 16 ping-pong tables were set up in the Waldorf ball room, with eight feet of free space behind each. Most of the contestants wore leather-soled shoes because rubber ones gripped the carpet and made it slide. They wore blue shirts, to improve the background. One S. A. Hamid, a Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm...
Clark, accustomed to the finest ping-pong room in the U. S. (at the Chicago Inter-Fraternity Club), is an investment banker with A. C. Allyn & Co. He used to be on the University of Chicago football team and was a tennis star in the Western Conference. The amazing speed and variety of his strokes - chops, drives, sidespins, baffling changes of pace - were too much for little Krakauer who stood well back from the table and played in a shrewd but more defensive style. When he began to make Clark miss his shots in the last game...