Word: shuttlecocked
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Badminton, modern version of the ancient game of battledore & shuttlecock, takes its name from the county seat of the Duke of Beaufort. Legend says it started there in 1873 when the guests at a dinner party stuck goose quills in champagne corks, began batting them across the table...
...with a slapdash chattiness that often sinks to sophomoric levels. In his laudable attempts to English the dead Latin facts, Author Pratt sometimes makes his English livelier than lucid: "He was disposed to hold grievance that the Senate had not protected him to point and edge, and a snarling shuttlecock of 'Your fault' began to grow up, which was interrupted by a message that plunged them all into the well of misery together. . . . The old man hardly seemed to care, numb to an aching misery, not so much that his ideals had died, but warped into forms unrecognizable...
...Volano is the colloquial name for a play in Shuttlecock...
...India I remember three things-blistering heat, air currents that threw my plane and me about like a shuttlecock and endless crowds of kind-hearted people pressing hospitality upon me." Calcutta's port . . . Burmese forests . . . Singapore, where mud hindered his take-off and made him almost strike low buildings. Over Melanasia, and the East Indies tropical rains swept around...
...Washington the State Department did not officially return the shuttlecock, last week, but Mr. Kellogg evinced displeasure and let it be known that the negotiations would probably have to begin anew from original premises. From Paris a spiteful imputation was hurled by Le Quotidien: "In America it would be fine for the election prospects of the Republican party if, after having overthrown the work of Woodrow Wilson, they could pose as the real founders of peace among nations. . . . But why should France play that game?" That is to say, France may prefer to work for universal peace through the League...