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Word: carded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type as well as the bridge expert, there are thrills aplenty in the daily reports of progress wholly apart from the cards and skill in handling them. In the ninety-seventh rubber or thereabouts, for instance, Mr. Culbertson threw down his hand with words which even kibitzers lack the temerity to repeat, and remarked that he "refused to play another card until Hal Sims had removed his big feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOUT POUR LE SPORT | 4/12/1935 | See Source »

Poor, persecuted Mr. Culbertson! His income is reported to fall but little short of a million a year from royalties exacted from teachers who use his system, and are forced to buy his playing-cards, score-cards, and other paraphernalia. Yet with it all he found time in his syndicated newspaper article yesterday to give a good word for Sims and some advice to the kiddies. "I have acknowledged Papa Sims as the second greatest card player in the country, but after watching him play the following hand, I, for the moment, forgot myself by stating publicly that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOUT POUR LE SPORT | 4/12/1935 | See Source »

...reality of Lawrence's predicament grows on the audience as the audience sees it growing on Lawrence. When emissaries from the Foreign Office demand the note which the mysterious abductors have forbidden Lawrence to give up, it gradually becomes established that his daughter has become a trump card in a plot to assassinate a diplomat whose death may mean a war. Following the clue he discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Apr. 8, 1935 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

Last fortnight the committee had its report ready. But the universities had not waited. Just completed was a $10,000 joint card catalog which would enable students to work with books from both libraries. The committee proposed that graduate students in one university be credited for courses taken in the other. Some classes would be consolidated, professors interchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Neighbors | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...Negro pastor of Harlem's St. James Presbyterian Church. Others of the 75 union members: Rabbis Israel Goldstein, Alexander Lyons and Sidney Goldstein; Dean Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Rev. Cameron P. Hall; Methodist Rev. F. Theodore Minor. Least parochial to carry a union card is Rev. James Myers, able researcher, idealistic unionizer, industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Local No. i | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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