Word: snooker
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Carom billiards is played on a pocketless table with only three balls. About 60%" of U.S. cue fans play pool, 35% play a variation called snooker, and only 5% billiards...
...English with a very broad A. The British themselves do their best to carry on with the old precept of the "home away from home." After golf or tennis, they stop in at the club-the Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey-&-splash, and rehearse the good old days of rumrunning. The younger set prefer the Pickwick, for its jukebox...
...Reading room with a table for snooker, to be played "on a cloth untrue with a twisted cue and elliptical billiard balls...
John Thomas Cain has three hobbies: snooker pool, beer drinking and rescuing bombees (score to date: twelve single-handed rescues, 44 assists). Playing pool one night, John heard the crash of a bomb, looking out of the billiard parlor saw a paint factory down the street go up in a stinking inferno of flames and fumes. With four policemen John dug into the basement, slithered through a four-foot flood of paint, dodged arcing electric wires. On doors they hauled ten workmen into the street, six alive. As they were carrying the last one away the building shuddered and fell...
...executive committee of the Freshman class has announced the following additions to three class committees. S. W. Satteries associate editortees: S. W. Satteries assistant-editor inchief of the Red Bank Barnes and H. M. Parker to the entertainment committee and Daniel man to the Snooker Committee...