Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although primarily for men just entering the export business," said Mr. McKim, "this innovation in the manufacturing line will no doubt prove a drawing card for men in the University who plan to go into exports, especially members of the Business School. They are invited to attend the meeting. A charge of 25 cents will be levied on all those attending the meeting to offset the expense of cigars...
According to an Iowa State Colege bulletin, Iowa farmers lost 525,000,000 in 1914 owing to weeds. R. F. Foster, famed card player, jotted this fact down; and it became recently the point of departure for a chapter in a book on religion. How many millions of dollars does society lose because of human weeds! So, with the most orthodox technique, he develops his subject...
...raison d'étre of the book is the author, for R. F. Foster is a unique character. Almost what Hoyle* was to the 18th century, Mr. Foster is to the 20th (particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study...
...John Coolidge, at the White House for Christmas, was invited to a dance in honor of a local debutante, Miss Lydia Archbold. He went without his admission card. A butler requested his name. "John Coolidge." The butler shook his head at the young gatecrasher: "Very sorry, sir, but your name is not on the list. Call some other time." Then Miss Lydia Archbold herself happened on the scene...
...order to get favor with white people, he found one had merely to fight. Accordingly, when the War was over, he started to earn his living in the prize-ring. His naive but effective antics made him a good drawing card, and before long he found himself standing under enormous arc lights in the Velodrome Buffalo in Paris while 50,-000 people shrieked and Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," world's light-heavyweight champion, twisted helplessly at his feet...