Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Card-Pitts...
President Davis, curious, put in a call for Cleveland. Alumnae General Secretary Florence H. Snow dispatched another round of cards, deploring the Royon propaganda. Meantime Miss Royon, secretary to Cleveland's ex-Tycoon Cyrus Eaton, announced that she had received some 100 letters in reply to her card-most of them were for Dewey...
When a newsman asked him if he played cards, Truman endeavored to please old ladies and poker fiends alike. "Card games," the candidate mused. "The only game I know anything about is that game-let me see-I don't know what the name is, but you put one card face down on the table, and four face up, and you bet." Then Truman, too, headed for California...
...When he reaches the U.S., the homing serviceman is given a card. If he chooses to fill it out, it is sent to his home-town newspapers and public officials as an announcement of his return. In no case is anyone supposed to be notified while the returning soldier...
Holtz, who stutters offstage but not on, is equally funny in both places. His Thursday-night card games with Harpo Marx and George Burns are riots of unbowdlerized storytelling. Though Holtz can come up with cracks like "I hope your marriage lasts as long as mine seems," his forte is not quotable nifties, but lengthy yarns, (whose point scarcely matters) that he tenderly unrolls like priceless fabrics richly embroidered with dialect. Fall guy of some of the best of them is Sam Lapidus, whose name Holtz lifted from a building sign 20 years ago. Typical Lapidus yarn (one fourth actual...