Word: slamming
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...diamonds on the dummy's king, Mr. Karn deliberated for several minutes. Then he made up his mind that Mr. Burnstine was not false carding. He returned to his own hand and achieved a finesse with the ten of diamonds which earned him his contract, a little slam and the first big swing for his team, 1,430 points. In a sense, it was the hand that decided the match. As the Burnstine team fell behind, they gambled for long chances, fell behind even further. After five hours play, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt and his teammates...
...Buster Keaton in this picture (faintly derived from Her Cardboard Lover, which Leslie Howard and the late Jeanne Eagels acted on the stage) works out well. Durante is worried about his huge and remarkable nose. The nose is worried by the other characters who tweak it, pinch it, slam doors against it. Durante is an urbane but eccentric chauffeur who speaks French with a Brooklyn accent. He gets a chance to use his favorite word when Polly Moran, as a maidservant, rebuffs him with the door. ''You may think that mortifies me," cries Durante. "It spurs me on, it spurs...
...next to consider a few of the pressing problems in the international field today. The Model Assembly, as its name implies, is conducted as far as possible along the lines of the organization it strives to reproduce, and this year Harvard will present the view points of France, Slam, and Chile in the discussions...
...card it was noted that the prospect had received a "slam by Tatler." Within a fortnight after the appearance of the "slam" in the other magazine, Town Topics sold the subject 15 shares at $110 each...
...rooming house where lived his ex-chorus girl mistress Marion Roberts (Strasmick). At 4:30 a. m. the taxi man drove Diamond on to his own cheap lodging house, the best New York's most publicized gangster could then afford. His landlady heard him climb the stairs, slam the door of his room. His wife still waited in the speakeasy...