Word: canasta
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...NIGHT, there was a Canasta game, with Jesse's grandparents and some of their friends...
BECAUSE SHE was from Philadelphia and had never been to Florida before, because it was Mid and Charles's condominium that everyone had gathered in to play Canasta, because she liked Mid and wanted to be part of the family, and most of all because she liked Jesse, Jeanne sat next...
...said and thought for a long time, until she could no longer hear the noise of the Canasta game, and then Jesse came and found...
When practical jokes palled, there were a myriad of other diversions: canasta and cribbage, songfests with Sisto and Douglass on guitars, jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, model building, knitting, reading and a discothèque. Baer, a devout Presbyterian, read his Bible a great deal when not poring over his notes on the testimony. A few, like Sisto, were genuinely enthralled by the enforced camaraderie. As he put it later: "I miss the friendship. I always felt like I could go knock on someone's door and talk any time of the day or night, just like when...
They prefer concerts and auctions to canasta and golf, are likely to spend the time their mothers relegated to ladies' luncheons to tracking down a Directoire commode for the foyer, just the right bronze for the living-room mantle. If not elaborately educated in the mechanics of cooking, the New Elegants are nonetheless possessed of a sophisticated palate favoring simple Continental cuisine-everything light in body and definite in flavor, including the wines...