Word: aces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition of these "aces," there are three "face cards" in each suit, representing the ace's assistants. In each suit there are also one activity card, two method cards and three tool cards. For example, in the Banker's suit, the professor is the knave, outranked by lawyer and the politician. The Banker's activity is control, and his methods are secrecy and bluff. Mr. Morey says it is a game of social significance. Profits go to the Fellowship of Man Foundation...
...game on the long end of 9-5 odds, at least so the bookies quote around Cambridge. In New York, however, odds of 9-4 have been given on Princeton. Baltimore is for Harvard, judging from the wire read to yesterday's rally from Harvard's all-time football ace, W. Barry Wood '31. "I saw Princeton play Navy last Saturday," wired Wood, "Harvard will win." All-American center Bon Ticknor also wired victory...
Most of the Yale men these days are getting pretty envious of the football players down there, if the evidence presented by the Yale News is any criterion. Here is a letter sent to "Louis Leatherhead, football ace," after the Elis' recent game with Navy...
...authors of "Boy Meets Girl" have turned an amusing newspaper yarn into a play that is as illogical and hilarious as most of their writings. An ace correspondent (William Gaxton) undertakes to win for his chief (Edward H. Robbins) the job of ambassador to Russia by discrediting the incumbent, Alonzo P. ("My friends call me 'Stinky'") Goddhe, who is portrayed by Victor Moore. The task turns out to be more than Gaxton had anticipated even with Mr. Moore's complete cooperation until he finally abandons the assignment and tries to make his victim the best-loved diplomat in the world...
Captain Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, U. S. World War "Ace of Aces," named "the greatest living human being." His choice (for averting another World War): Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile, Princeton University's 674 freshmen, by a one-vote margin over Adolf Hitler, chose the same man for the same title...