Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern and Beacon--"Potemkin"--11 to 11.30 o'clock.--The Russian Soviet makes a real bid for recognition...
Disarmament. The feature of the week was French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand's bid for a new peace compact. In his opinion, everybody is trying to go further in the matter of disarmament than the present stags and temper of European politics will permit. He drew attention to the fact that the Third Commission of the Assembly, which had been studying the problem, has been snowed under by con- flicting compacts, resolutions and covenants. He suggested, there- fore, that the Commission should remain at work doing nothing more than preparing a program for the Preparatory Disarmament commission...
Whist and for about ten years reigned unchallenged. It became known as Bridge. Then one afternoon three Englishmen (according to reliable tradition) could not find a fourth to complete their table. They evolved a game based on exposing one of the four hands and bidding for it. The man who estimated he could make the most tricks with his hand playing in combination with the exposed hand took the bid. There were, of course, heavy penalties, for overestimation. From this crude start grew Auction Bridge, which is still the most widely played of all. In its present form all four...
...North Sydney, Nova Scotia, far away from his tour-companions, Edward of Wales and George, his brother, in Alberta, gathered a distinguished group to bid the Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin farewell. It included Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; National Defense Minister Col. J. L. Ralston; Postmaster General Hon. Peter J. Veniot. Sirens shrieked and the big liner moved away on its voyage across the Atlantic. Handkerchiefs waved, silk hats were lifted, last messages shouted. And gradually the great ship became like a rowboat on the horizon and eventually was seen no more...
Politically, the move was seen as a bid on the part of Marshal Chang for political popularity particularly in the South, where many desertions to the Northern side might well be expected to result...