Word: ace
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entries for the first winter meeting of the H. A. A., which will be held tomorrow afternoon, closed last night at ten o'clock. All the events in sparring will be well contested, but there are fewer entries than usual for the wrestling. The entries ace as follows...
...only story in the issue is "The 'Ace's' Love Affairs." Its greatest merit lies in its length, the article showing great ability in spinning out unimportant details. The plot is original and is well wrought out. The style has a tendency to incoherency, but is picturesque and vigorous. The story contains several good passages, and in spite of its fanlts is very readable and interesting...
...Williams "Athenxum" says: 'Now that we have a chess club, why not organize a poker club. We need one. It was the immortal Duke who said: "Many an hour is wasted in vain or frivolous conversation that might be profitably employed in holding four kings and an ace...
...office, that proverbial "U 5." Snodkins points to these with the pride of an old soldier who shows his empty sleeve and tails of the battles he has been through. Our attention is next called to a strange device over the fire-place-a row of four cards, the ace of hearts, eight of clubs, 8 to spades and five of diamonds, a suspicious looking bottle above, and skull-and-crossbones on each side. Snodkins informs us that it is a pictorial enigma; but, not being good at pictorial enigmas, we pass on, and come to the "shingles," so called...
GLOBE THEATRE.-"The Ace of Clubs," Performance...