Word: snakewood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Estancia, at Saratoga, Calif., is virtually built around the croquet court, which is lined with floodlights for night games. The Norris croquet is an invention of their own, combining features of billiards and golf. Played with no boundaries, it is a matter of composition rubber balls, mallets of snakewood made in Manhattan. Mrs. Norris can get inordinately angry at her croquet partners when they are bad. Guests on the 200-acre estate are not chosen for their proficiency at the game, but it is an unfortunate guest who plays a bad game of croquet with the expert Norrises...
...Wilste, Holstein, Henry Moeller, 15, decided to go to sea, sailed on a clipper ship for Hongkong. His aunt said goodbye to him and presented Henry Moeller with an umbrella of purple silk with a carved snakewood handle. "It will be handy in case it rains," she said...
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