Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mature persons Zip has always been lacking in appeal. His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus...
...Having bid out of turn, a bidder is not penalized if he makes his bid sufficient before the error is noticed and before another bidder has bid. But the sufficient bid must be in the same suit (or in No Trump if that was the insufficient bid). If the error is noticed and called before being corrected, and before another bid has been made, the offender must make his bid sufficient and his partner is barred from the auction. But in this case, the insufficient bid may be made sufficient in any suit or in No Trump...
...Should Declarer lead from Dummy when it is his own lead, or vice versa, he must, if detected before an adversary has played, lead from the proper hand in the same suit if the proper hand contains that suit (to cover illegitimate efforts at finesse...
...Honor values: simple honors in all suits and No Trump-30; four honors divided, in all suits and No Trump-40; five suit honors divided 2 and 3-50; four suit honors in one hand-80; five suit honors divided 4 and 1-90; all honors in one hand-100. One or two honors held by a side are not counted. (Brand new, but in wide vogue before the new code was officially published...
...Renunciation of suit (i. e., unwarranted refusal) becomes a revoke only when the renouncing player or his partner leads or plays to the next trick, in or out of turn; or when the renouncer's side claims the remaining trick or tricks. If Dummy has left the table, there is no revoke by Declarer unless an adversary calls the renounce to his attention in time to enable him to correct it. (Dummy has not "left the table" if he is watching Declarer play the hand...