Word: volley
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...evenings form in a man's later reminiscences. It seems that in the good old days the chandeliers were festooned with victuals, and foodstuffs kept falling from the upper regions of the hall for several hours after the evening meal was over. The festivities this year opened with a volley of menus and table-number cards. This was rapidly followed by the conventional shower of sugar wrapped in napkins which were hurled through...
...umpire or scorekeeper The scholars were at all times completely at the mercy of the editors, and even their star mathematicians could not solve Sam Hall's cavorting curves. The game was tied up in a sack and dropped overboard in the sixth, when a volley of bingles drove the Intellectualists from their last line of trenches. Frequent substitutions failed to lower the standard of the CRIMSON'S playing, and it will be difficult to select a nine for the remaining victories of the season...
...Dabney has the best form of all, resembling W. A. Larned's style very much. His swing is free and easy, both fore and backward. At times he is brilliant overhead. His service can be improved on, and when running to the net his tendency is to volley too carelessly. With more tournament play, he should rank among the first ten players, as he understands the game thoroughly...
...were soon joined by the aught-sevens, dressed in every variety of costume from pajamas to red caps and downs. Every one received an official badge and a producer of music(?) and the whole army marched around Cambridge and through Memorial Hall, where it narrowly escaped annihilation from a volley of buns and other deadly missles...
...play well together, and were occasionally passed by well placed shots. Leonard at the beginning did some very fast playing, but toward the end of the match he played rashly and carelessly, often making double faults in an attempt to place two swift serves. Hackett made some good half-volley shots, but his serve was too swift to be accurate...