Word: backgammon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...Council will meet. It will be called to order. The minutes of the last meeting will be read, ignored and approved. (But this is the lot of minutes.) The business of the meeting will be opened by a recommendation of X for numberals in backgammon. The whole checker team for A to Z will be recommended for their letters. So-and-so will be recommended for assistant whist manager. (These sports are taken at random to prove to the critics that Harvard is as decadent as they declare her to be.) Schedules will be read and approved. All recommendations...