Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most players enjoy these holdings less frequently than they should. They cheat themselves out of juicy hands by hasty or unskillful shuffling which does not produce true random distribution. After a hand of play the pack is composed of 13 tricks the great majority of which contain three or four cards of like suit. If the deal is made from this unshuffled pack, each player will get one card from each trick, and the result will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds...
...Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...
...Prizefighter and the Lady," the other picture, is also good; you will enjoy it the more if you are interested in the boxing racket, as the leading parts are taken by Max Baer and Primo Carnera on the male side, and Myrna Loy on the female--not that the last named has anything specific to do with boxing. It is in this film that Max becomes carneravorous and fights ten rounds with Primo; some of the critics have even intimated that Maxie's edge on the Italiano in this picture version of their battle has influenced the betting odds...
...good grounds for the view that his post is one whose importance depends wholly on its incumbent. Since Mr. Chamberlin's main interest has been in the regulation of monopolistic and what he terms "monopoloid" industries, his views should carry considerable weight, even with an Administration which does not enjoy the favor of the Seven Wise Men of Harvard...
CHARLES DICKENS-Stephen Leacock- Doubleday, Doran ($3). Dyed-in-the-wool Dickensians may enjoy reading this new version of an old and favorite subject, but even they will not grant full marks to the Charles Dickens of Stephen Leacock, head of the political economy department at Canada's McGill University and oldtime popular humorist. Almost universally appreciative when he is writing of Dickens' books, Biographer Leacock is also sympathetic when it comes to his hero's private life. But he considers that Dickens never completely acquired good taste, thinks this lack and a kind of nervous egotism...