Word: woollcott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...member of the game's hall of fame who has built his own court at his nursery in Northern California. Lufkin, who played for years on Samuel Goldwyn's two courts in Beverly Hills, recalls those glory years of the game when fierce rivalries between literary lions like Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman led to marathon grudge matches on the producer's courts. Woollcott once said, "My doctor forbids me to play unless I win." He played such a vicious game that his friends made a film in which he was burned at the stake for kicking his croquet...