Word: culbertson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLIAM S. CULBERTSON...
...told me that the only exercise he got was when he took the links out of one shirt and put them in another. That goes for me too." He does play croquet, however-with a fierce desire to win, as he plays parlor games and bridge. Called by Ely Culbertson "the best amateur bridge player in the U. S.," he hates playing with his dub friends, tackles the experts without getting hurt, peppers the game with such comments as "I'd like a review of the bidding, with the original inflections...
...Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered 138 lectures at $25 apiece on behalf of Japan, which also employed Washington Lawyer Frederick Moore at $500 a month. Piquant were the names of Spain's U. S. interpreters: for the Rightists. William S. Culbertson, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Chile and brother of Paul Culbertson, assistant chief of the State Department's Division of European Affairs; for the Loyalists, the New Republic's Contributing Editor William P. Mangold, who got a number of Congressmen in trouble with their constituents early this year...
...Rochester (N. Y.) Advertising Club, Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson talked about himself. Said he: "I took myself and multiplied myself 100-fold. For instance, by nature I am witty. So I worked night and day to be brilliant. By nature, I am cocky. So I multiplied it.... By nature I am humble. ... I really know I am, for only humble people have the right to be conceited. That's why I'm so humble...
...Like Ely Culbertson, P. Hal Sims, and most other famed contract experts, the Four Aces admit that they are the best bridge players, individually and collectively, in the world...