Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...match in which Kozeluh beat Richards last week was not characterized by that tense, almost insane hunger for points with which amateurs excite galleries and rattle their linesmen. Both men seemed to be enjoying their game; Kozeluh would explain "Bed lock!" to the gallery when Richards dropped a volley. His game was distinctively that of a professional; he carried his racquet awkwardly at his side, played from the base-line with, a long follow-through and a short backswing, ran for nothing which he could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive...
...GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!"?Dailey Paskman and Sigmund Spaeth?Double-day Doran ($4.00). "There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby," when the interlocutor bids his black-face gentlemen be seated, and starts the volley of wisecracks between Bones and Tambo, the two "endmen." Endmen not only in the semicircle, these two always have the last word?at the expense of the ponderous master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor. For "he is the father of all the foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English...
...suburban real estate. His grounds at Tarrytown, North Tarrytown, Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant Townships, N. Y., were assessed at $5,588,050, calling for annual taxes of approximately $137,000. It was in his private gymnasium at Tarrytown that Mr. Rockefeller strained his right arm. He was playing volley ball against his 16-year-old son, Winthrop...
...growled and surged. The troopers cursed. Mr. Scherf ordered a volley over the heads of the "Wobblies." They did not wobble. The next volley, point blank into the close-packed marchers, brought shrieks, confusion a halt. Bodies began dropping to the ground?one, two. As the "Wobblies" retreated, more of the wounded fell out. Five died, 20 were wounded, including two women in men's clothing...
...Then the volley of six rifles speaking as one sounded as the officer let his sword fall as the signal to fire. General Quijano dropped to the ground, his body convulsing. On orders from the officer, a soldier approached the quivering form and put the muzzle of his rifle against the general's head, pulled the trigger. Thus died General Quijano, brave to the last...