Word: pong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careful not to make Mr. Baldwin's nose too much like a ping pong ball, or not to draw Mr. Thomas wearing a black tie with a white waistcoat. He controls with almost superhuman restraint the impulse to accentuate the Aunt Maria aspect of Mr. MacDonald's hair, abstains from sharpening Sir John Simon's head to vanishing point, and from accentuating the vulture glare of Mr. Neville Chamberlain...
Entries for the billiard, ping-pong, and pool tournaments at the Union for all interested Freshmen will close Thursday night. The tournaments have been organized by the 1936 Union Committee and each one is under the direction of one member of the Committee...
Three members of the Union Committee have been placed in charge of the tournaments. E.L. Blair '36, representative from Holworthy Hall, is supervisor of the ping-pong contest. Braman Gibbs '36, representative from Thayer, is in charge of play in billiards, and S.R. Callaway '36, Massachusetts Hall representative, of pool. Each man will draw up a ladder and a set of rules for his tournament...
Last year a ping-pong tournament was held for members of the first Freshman class in the Union. About sixty men entered, competing for a prize of $10 in gold...
Also invisible is the Young Annamite Party, driven into hiding by the French. Much like the Turkish Revolutionists in 1918. the Young Annamites of today demand proclamation of an Annamite Republic. They refer contemptuously to Ping Pong Player Bao Dai as a "French Emperor" and are not above hatching bomb plots against French Governor Pierre Pasquier who has had several narrow escapes...