Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska received from Frank Thomas, President of the Co-operative Beet Growers' Association of Scotts Bluff a telegram: "Feeling is running high here. There is danger of violence...
...pressmen sought "gruff and bluff" Marshall Josef Pilsudski, who recently overthrew the Polish Government (TIME, May 24), at his General Staff Headquarters...
Granting the necessity of an open season on such players, there yet exists a certain lure in conversational bridge. A judicious phrase, a word here and there when not carried to the extreme of actual information, often turns a dull hand into a delightful bluff. A finesse is transformed from a mere mathematical chance to a palpitating affair of flesh and blood. While the game still retains its intelligent halo, the human factor which makes poker endurable is also added...
...Nicaraguan Congress at once declared the nation in a state of war, and President Chamorro proceeded to put 3,000 men under arms as quickly as possible. Meanwhile the revolutionaries captured El Bluff. The U. S. cruiser Cleveland was thereupon ordered to Nicaraguan waters...
...works of its sons do we know it. And faro and monte are not unknown mysteries even in the modern and effete east; we have met the southern planter and the river boat gambler before, and still do we, their unworthy descendants, endeavor to fill on kings or bluff a bobtailed flush...