Word: flushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trippers just home from Europe, bubbling over with news of how fast the taxicabs go in Paris and how hard it is to buy good cigarets in England, received a sorry setback, and their envious friends a flush of joy, upon opening the September number of McCall's magazine and there reading an article by the daughter of Chief Justice Taft, Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr College. "It is estimated," estimated Mrs. Manning, "that nearly 500,000 Americans have crossed the Atlantic this summer. ... I should be the last to question the benefits or the delights...
...Underwood: "A royal flush. But as times progressed and we reached modern developments and modern ideas, innovations have been introduced into the game. They now allow deuces to run wild. I believe that is the term...
...have played the game of draw poker. I regret to say I am not an expert. That has been forcibly illustrated to me. The old game of draw poker has certain manifest rules and regulations as to what is the highest hand. I believe it is called a straight flush...
Several Senatorial Voices: "A royal flush...
...player who has placed the greatest number, then the cards are exposed and the player with the best cards takes the pot. The cards are valued according to an arbitrary system. The "best" possible hand is one which contains ace, king, queen, jack, ten of one suit ("a royal flush"). The lowest possible hand is two, three, four, five, seven in four different suits ("seven high"). There are many variants on the game as here described. In one of them, known as "deuces wild," any deuce is by courtesy allowed to represent any card of any suit in the evaluation...