Word: pong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convict him everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player, indefatigable host, he likes to keep long and late hours. No busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer...
...Nagel's pet aversious are sweetened corn bread and night clubs. His pet diversions are ping-pong and bicycling. Being very finicky about his table-tennis racquets, Nagel has imported an extra-large weapon from Germany. For the rest of his exercise, since he left his bicycle in the West, he finds it necessary to resort to ambulation. He usually walks from ten to fifteen miles a day. It was while walking around Central Park that he memorized the lines for the show in which he is now playing. "Being a timid young man," said Nagel. "I avoided the inside...
...handsome, spacious, and airy and have a commanding view, which is not only beautiful but is useful as well, in that it includes in its scope three large, accurate tower-clocks; (4) To live in them is to live as in a club--a floor below are ping-pong tables, library, and for the Merrimaniacs a History Reading Room. Two floors below are dining room, radio, fireplace, magazines, newspapers, piano, and demi-tasses. Three floors down are barber shop and pool room. (To be sure, these facilities are open to all Freshmen, but we alone are constantly within banister distance...
Coach Jack Carr is using a green ping-pong board as a miniature soccer field to demonstrate new plays to the Varsity squad this year. It is a much photographed brainchild of Carr's and is provided with specially-made wooden frames to protect the corners from injury...
After this brief introduction, one is scarcely surprised to learn that Professor Abbott's interests also include Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe," the movies, Horticulture Exhibits, and Ping Pong; one is not startled when Professor Abbott attracts some student's attention by planting the black stick firmly upon the latter's abdomen...