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Into the Portland Club in London one afternoon in the last decade of the 19th Century, strode Lord Brougham with an idea. He summoned three of his acquaintances around him and called for a pack of cards. He outlined to them a game that later was to become known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize...
Married. Ruth Fahnestock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Fahnestock; to A. Coster Schermerhorn, broker; in Manhattan. The bride drove to and from St. Thomas's Church in a brougham drawn by two perfectly matched sorrel horses, driven by the coachman who had officiated in the same capacity for the marriage of her parents...
...world has seen what can be done in this way. If the new French cabinet will insist on doing things slowly and correctly through the usual diplomatic channels, France will find itself in the position of a man who decides to drive leisurely down speeding Broadway in a smart brougham only to wonder at being the last of a long line before the box-office...
...clock meeting at the School on "Some Attractive Locations for Surgeons." The address was very instructive and interesting. The Committee was also able to arrant for engagements for Dr. Harrison to speak at the Boston University School of Medicine, the New England Baptist Hospital, and the Peter Bent Brougham Hospital. We were unsuccessful this year in attempting to secure the Rev. G. A. Gordon of the New Old South Church and the Rev. Albert Parker Fitch of Andover Seminary to speak to the Medical School...
Many of the engravings, especially of English chancellors are of great value and beautiful workmanship. Among the more famous English portaits may be mentioned those of Lord Mansfield, Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, Lord Camden and Lord Brougham; and of Americans, an etching of Alexander Hamilton and an engraving of Henry Baldwin, at one time judge of the Supreme Court of the United States...