Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bidding is now legally termed "the auction"; the four players, as Declarer, Dummy, Senior (left of Declarer) and Junior; the hand, as everything that takes place between the cut and the completion or concedure of the last trick...
...sufficient bid must be in the same suit (or in No Trump if that was the insufficient bid). If the error is noticed and called before being corrected, and before another bid has been made, the offender must make his bid sufficient and his partner is barred from the auction. But in this case, the insufficient bid may be made sufficient in any suit or in No Trump...
...Seven odd tricks is the highest legal bid. The penalties for bidding eight or more: the offender and his partner are barred from the auction; either opponent may 1) demand a new deal; 2) require the declaration to be played at seven, doubled or undoubted, by the offending side; or 3) direct that the auction revert to the last legitimate declaration "and be continued by his side from that point...
...card exposed during the auction must be left exposed; if it is a ten or higher, its holder's partner is barred from the auction. (The old code was indiscriminate...
...auction room of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, the sale of Viscount Leverhulme's furniture, his rare porcelains, his tapestries and paintings (TIME, Feb. 22), went steadily on. In the past fortnight the auctioneer has applied that word "sold" to the following objects, among others...