Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...card game which Mr. Maschke was playing at his club was upstate whist,* requiring brains, not downstate poker, game of bluff. "I am not interested in anything Mr. Willis says. Anything he does is all right with me. . . . I'm through writing letters. But I'm going to make a speech one of these days and when I do I'll say a few things . . . ," said Mr. Maschke...
Well known in Illinois was Lee O'Neil Browne, able lawyer, long a member of the Legislature. His friendly neighbors in Ottawa, Ill., would point out his fine early-American brick mansion, standing proudly on the bluff that overhangs the Fox River...
...despite the "publicity" resolution the ordinary canons of procedure would apply. This meant that any session could be made secret by a two thirds vote of its members. Curiously enough, this ruling seemed to meet with the approval of most Latins. Since sagacious Mr. Hughes had called their outstanding bluff, they were as anxious as he to favor a procedure which would prevent, for example, loud squabbles between those embittered rivals Chile and Peru...
Baltimore Monumental City Boston The Hub Charleston, S. C Palmetto City Denver City of the Plains Galveston Oleander City Los Angeles City of the Angels Memphis Bluff City New Orleans Crescent City Portland, Ore Rose City...
...Manhattan hotel, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N. retired, said he was so perturbed by the cruiser news from Eng land that he could think of nothing else. He quoted, without naming, a high U. S. official who viewed the British move as a British bluff, an effort to discredit and obstruct the Coolidge program in the 70th Con gress, which meets this week...