Word: pong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempting to make the common rooms in Dunster and Lowell Houses a cross between those in Vanderbilt Hall in the Medical School and those in the Freshman Halls. That is, we anticipate occasional rough-houses.... There will probably be no ping-pong tables."--William G. Morse, University purchasing agent...
...fact that the Master of Adams House is sporting a cane and favoring a swollen ankle should evoke no surprise if one considers the rigors of a Ping Pong tournament. Technical parlance for the damaging manoeuvre is said to be "Reaching for a wide one." There is no substance to the rumor that Professor Baxter stubbed his toe on a copy of the "Ironclad Battleship...
Frederick John Perry has a sleek appearance, a bland cosmopolitan manner which belies the fact that he taught himself tennis on London's public courts, became world's ping pong champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they...
Last month U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes's Grandnephew Rutherford Fullerton, a retired businessman from Columbus, Ohio, invited two young U. S. artists and the wife of one of them to a game of ping-pong and a round of brandy at the Hotel Mediterraneo in El Terreno. They were all feeling fine when the artist's wife, Mrs. Clinton Benedict Lockwood, heard sounds of a row between the doorman and a drunk. She went to pacify him while the doorman left to get help. He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green...
...Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which cost $575,000; carved ancient choir stalls; the bed of the great Richelieu for guests; $8,000 vases; gold dinner plates and paper napkins; a ping-pong table of medieval wood; a lavish theatre, where each night is shown the latest talking picture film, very likely flown that day from Hollywood; and 150 men and women menials to tend the comfort of their lord...