Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rising from captain to major in the Field Artillery. In 1928 he was elected national commander of the American Legion, went on from there to become Governor of Indiana in 1933. Blessed with a distinguishing shock of white hair and bold black eyebrows, a gregarious lover of golf, poker and football, he has made many a friend by his forceful, eloquent, ingratiating personality. He has also made many an enemy by his autocratic disposition, his use of militia in labor disputes. The troops, plus his use of the semi-dictatorial emergency powers he won from the Legislature few weeks after...
...navigator, says Author Flynn, was Providence. They all took turns at the hand pump, which had to be kept going most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand. Diversions included their own brand of Rabelaisian horseplay, drinking bouts, a couple of carnivals, acquaintance with many an odd character...
...promoting bridge in this fashion through 155 stations in the U. S., 15 in Canada. So popular did the broadcasts become that nearly 200 newspapers reprinted the studio games for their bridge fans. Today Cardman Albert believes that the trend will turn toward old num- bers like hearts, poker, pinochle, where individual skill is more important than teamwork. So long as the U. S. plays cards Mr. Albert does not care what the game happens to be. For years his com pany has made more than one-half the decks sold in the U. S. (last year's total...
Dark, well-knit, young Beveridge Webster is a good swimmer, takes pride in his tennis, likes to play poker or bridge with his great good friend Igor Stravinsky. He boasts of the little slam he once made against Sidney Lenz...
Despite the ominous prediction of Robert Maynard Hutchins that the Harvard national scholarships "will be unsuccessful", President Conant not only has shown that he intends to stay in this poker game of educational policy, but yesterday stacked six more fat chips on the strength of his hand. Next September, instead of only ten prize scholarships to draw entering Freshmen of outstanding ability principally from the Middle West, there will be sixteen reaching out to the Far West and deep South. In President Conant's plan, as compared to the relatively romantic and revolutionary proposals of Hutchin's recent essay...