Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This library its pool and card rooms its fairly attractive furnishings give the Union the facilities to be what it calls itself--a club, rather than a mere allunct of the H. A. A., or a housing for mass meetings. Intelligent direction of the governing board may very possibly make it mean more to a great part of its members than an extra ten dollars on the term bill. Good speakers might aid in bringing them there...
...human rosary. At Harvard it means little more than a walk to one of various halls and ten minutes spent there while registering. To be sure there are appended duties such as journies to one's tutor and to the Bank, but the main agony is passed when the card is returned and permanently filed...
...Other clubs complained, forced the Portland Club to call their members to a lawmaking committee. So also with the Whist Club; a few years ago other U. S. clubs grumbled at what they considered to be "unwarranted authority." Now the laws are made by a committee of various prominent card clubs. But the laws are still issued by The Whist Club...
Into the Portland Club in London one afternoon in the last decade of the 19th Century, strode Lord Brougham with an idea. He summoned three of his acquaintances around him and called for a pack of cards. He outlined to them a game that later was to become known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize...
Before Bridge there was for many years Whist; and on Whist are the fundamentals of all types of Bridge laid. Whist was played with a pack of 52 cards; dealt one at a time to four players; partners two and two. The last card was turned up and its suit (hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds) determined the trump. One player led a card, face up on the table, and the others played to it in rotation. The players shedding the highest card of the suit (ace high, king next and so on down to two) took the trick. If his hand...