Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grants to colleges have misguidedly subsidized materials oftener than men. The Ph.D. degree has become the "union card" of the U.S. college teacher; good non-union teachers are passed over for "wolves wrapped in sheepskin...
Then, suddenly, she falls very much in love with a new suitor-and One-Man Show drops from its sleeve the card whose edge had, for some time back, been just discernible to the lynx-eyed. It was the father who, deliberately or not, had fostered the girl's fixation; it is the father who tries now to preserve...
...night last week, at Manhattan's Cavendish Club, the impossible happened: no one was playing bridge. The exclusive headquarters for contract bridge experts had gone all out for a brand new four-handed card game called Check Pinochle...
Fistfuls from Firehouse. Because Check is played with a 48-card pinochle deck (i.e., two ordinary 52-card decks with all cards below the nine discarded), every deal is bound to provide a fistful of aces, kings and queens. Bridge players, accustomed to holding a number of "bust" hands during an evening of play, will perk up at such a splash of face cards. Then, too, whereas bridge games often drag out as hands are passed because they are too evenly distributed, almost every Check deal gives either side a chance to bid and make a contract...
...forgotten fourhanded, partnership pinochle games (one was called Firehouse Pinochle). In its present form, Check has been played in Manhattan for about a year, quietly at first and mainly by pinochle addicts. Now that bridge experts have taken to the game, the Association of American Playing Card Manufacturers has given it official recognition, and rules of play- with a system of scoring- have reached some degree of permanency...