Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been stopped, after due warning that the shipments must cease, by British warships as they sailed from Rotterdam. They had been escorted through the Channel mine fields to The Downs, there to await the pleasure of the British Enemy Export Committee, to serve as an extra trump in the card game England has been playing with Italy since the beginning...
...years U. S. paint manufacturers have tried to sell homeowners the virtues of paint instead of wallpaper. Their difficulty was that housewives couldn't visualize from a color card what their walls and trim would look like after paint was on. With wallpaper they could take home sample books and see for themselves. To overcome this handicap, Cleveland's big Sherwin-Williams Co. launched an ambitious $250,000 project...
Between the players is a board with two double rows of 30 holes each and gameholes at the end. In six-card cribbage, most popular of the game's variations, six cards are dealt to each player, two of which are discarded face down for the crib (which belongs to the dealer). The rest of the pack is cut and a "starter" card turned up. Then the players play out their hands-each in turn laying a card face up on his own side of the table, calling out the number of pips on each card...
Last week Stravinsky, guest-conducting Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony, gave Chicagoans a taste of his own music: The Card Party, The Firebird. The audience loved it, but critics found that, since the Sacre, Composer Stravinsky had come a long way downhill...
...high life of Spain's capital as happily as his Rip van Winkle had taken to the little Dutchmen's supernatural liquor. One of his dashing hostesses was the Duchess of Benavente, who hated parsimony. On one occasion when the French Ambassador held up one of her card games to look for a coin he had dropped, the Duchess solicitously lit a handful of bank notes to give him light...