Word: pong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to this gift a new regulation size pine-pong table and sets of checkers and chess have been acquired the result of various donations...
Camp Wood, for white girls, has a big recreation & dining room, electrically-lighted cabins, tennis courts, ping-pong tables, riding horses, a lake for swimming and boating. At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool. Camp Bide-a-Wee "is a cool, green spot shaded by huge trees situated beside a clear creek" where "colored women live in screened-in cabins, possess a beautifully furnished main room for recreation and study and have tennis courts, swings and a croquet ground for sports...
...with his wife and children. Gordon Jr., 10, and Joan. 4. He plays the saxophone, on which his favorite tune is "The Lady in Red." He shares the enthusiasm of most baseballers for hunting, which he expects to do in Wyoming next month. He smokes Camels, has a ping-pong table in his basement, keeps a secretary to answer his fan letters-200 a week...
Ever since picayune Bill Johnston appeared on the scene in 1915, there has been at least one high-class tennist who looks as if nature had designed him for ping-pong. Currently, Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, a 5 ft. -3 in. Atlantan, holds this distinction. Equipped with almost nothing except a superhuman ability to get the ball back, his qualifications as a dark horse at Forest Hills are: 1) a grievance against the Davis Cup Committee for not putting him on the team for European play, 2) the fact that he has at one time or another beaten almost every able...
...them exceedingly occult reasons, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia abruptly took action which had the effect of barring Germans from being granted New York City licenses as masseurs, locksmiths, itinerant musicians, operators of newsstands, keepers of fruit or soda water booths, bootblacks on outdoor stands, operators of employment agencies, ping- pong galleries, pool and billiard parlors, shooting galleries or bathing establishments, public porters, dirt-cart drivers, wardrobe concessionaires, charity entertainment managers, hand-organ grinders and operators of junk shops, junk carts or junk boats...