Word: poker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston papers tell a story of a Yale poker game which was recently played. It was a jack pot and it had grown, after much heavy betting to $250. The loser, wonderful to relate, fainted on the show of hands. We are inclined to discredit this story for we think no Yale man would faint...
...grandmother of Apollo; in fine he can tell you almost anything, but he is not a "bold, bad man." What is he, she, or it, then? Well, in the first place he generally "rags something less than 99 per cent., but he does not play the "Advocate's" little poker game. No. He wears glasses. Not dude glasses, nor goggles, nor the dapper gold-bowed spectacles, but great round moon-eyed glasses, glasses that would stew the brain of an ordinary man. And then he reads a little, you know. He is up with the lark; he is up with...
...Yale, sums up his attack as follows: "A medley-a smattering of language, sciences and subjects, not one of which is there any solid foundation laid for future acquirements, mingled with a thorough acquaintance with the rules of athletic games, the composition of mixed drinks, and the mysteries of poker-such is the present college education...
...Williams "Athenxum" says: 'Now that we have a chess club, why not organize a poker club. We need one. It was the immortal Duke who said: "Many an hour is wasted in vain or frivolous conversation that might be profitably employed in holding four kings...
...English "Notes and Queries" protests against the loose use of technical terms that is prevalent in our games and sports. The writer instances cases of mistaken usage in billiards and whist, but, strangely enough, he does not mention poker, a game, as I am told, in which pre-eminently a loose use of technical terms prevails. Poker, I presume, however, is an American game, and, in spite of the patriotic efforts of Minister Schenck, is not yet received with favor in England. "The game in which this misuse of terms is most rampant, and to which I especially desire...