Word: piles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...players, of whom there may be from two to six. Counters called "chips" representing money, real or imaginary, are used, and each player who believes that the cards dealt him may possibly win, places one or more of these counters in the centre of the table in a pile, which is called the "pot." Those who do this are then privileged (but not required) to call on the dealer for from one to five cards more, after having discarded an equal number. All hold their cards concealed. The player at the dealer's left then places a stake...
...Reining in his white Arabian horse, he gazed for a moment tranquilly upon the troop of French soldiers, who stood rigidly at attention to receive him. With a swift and surprisingly graceful movement he swung off his horse and strode over a pile of stones and past a half dead fire to where General Ibos, Commander of the French Moroccan division, stood waiting. With a bow entirely courteous but neither hurried nor deferential, the fallen Sultan placed himself at General Ibos' disposal. After ten minutes of discussion as to the disposition of the captives' wives and personal suite...
...lost consciousness after the volley which killed her family and wounded her, and awoke to find herself jolting along in the peasant cart of one Tschaikovski, a Red guard, who later told her that he was a member of the firing squad but had subsequently covered her with a pile of rags, while the corpses of the murdered Romanoffs were dragged away to be destroyed by acid...
...unrivaled wealth. Possessed of an astonishing "rickollection" and pioneer shrewdness, he harps on the folly of tainting man's natural intelligence with education. He has a daughter, Adelaide, highly modernized by upstate schooling, with whom Abner's fortunes are further involved. The complications pile up alarmingly until, puzzled by Railroad's tactics, acquaintances cremate him alive in his office. Adelaide goes to India. Abner, poor again, goes to take care of Nessie and their baby, the worn-out Belshue having committed suicide at a chronologically proper moment...
...hard, for one who lived in the good old days when John, the Orangeman assuaged the undergraduate palate, to come back and find everything so changed. Not only architecturally,--there is a horrible spick-span new pile on the site of old Dane Hall with its pleasant lived buttresses, and not a trace of the moss-grown old pump remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug...