Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...identity cards read as follows: "The National Student Federation of America certifies that the bearer of this card is a member of its organization, and would be obliged to the national students' organizations of Europe as well as to the governmental and university officials if they would grant to the bearer of this card all the facilities and privileges of travelling students." Under this will appear the signature of an officer of the Federation. The subsequent recommendation will be signed by Dr. Franz Deak, Vice-President of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants and at present a special student...
...trustful soul who is in the habit of drawing to three card flushes and who likes to drag them blind will probably feel the urge to accept the Metropolitan's latest publicity stunt invitation to "Take a Chance" this week. At least there is no harm in trying for those who are always lucky and not over particular. The element of suspense is worth the price of admission. The management generously took us on the inside, after we had patiently seen out the mystery, and as it stands your best friend won't tell you. After all God doesn...
...Offenses against the ethics and etiquet of the game are unpardonable, as they are not subject to prescribed penalties." (Examples: playing a card ostentatiously to draw a partner's attention; deceitful hesitation; Dummy leaving his seat to watch Declarer's play...
...GAMBLER ON THE MISSISSIPPI-George H. Devol -Henry Holt ($2). An inland buccaneer tells many disconnected anecdotes of fleecing the not-so-innocents who traveled up and down the great valley before, during and after the Civil War. The chief characters are the three little pasteboards of three-card monte; the marked poker deck; palmed aces, loaded dice and Devol, who never would give up his takings, preferring a rough-and-tumble every time. He was an expert rough-and-tumbler and left a trail of broken noses behind him by his deftness at ramming with his head...
...importance, with not only major and minor sports, but the time spent in athletic management or in competing for athletic management. The "recreation and leisure" section included exercise and sports such as golf and tennis, reading, not in preparation for classroom work, lectures and concerts, theatres and movies, card-playing, "parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether Wolf's Head or Elihu...