Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afraid to hurt the ex-Kaiser's feelings? No other reason available for your suppression of the news re his attempt to trick the Germans out of 300 million marks per year...
General Lu Chunglin, commander of the Feng troops, thereupon tried the old trick of offering to share Peking with Wu, if the latter would abandon Chang. The week passed while these ticklish negotiations were in progress. Late despatches reported that Wu had refused to listen to Lu; and that the latter, having given up hope of holding Peking, was rapidly withdrawing all the Feng armies to their great northern base, Kalgan...
...bidding is now legally termed "the auction"; the four players, as Declarer, Dummy, Senior (left of Declarer) and Junior; the hand, as everything that takes place between the cut and the completion or concedure of the last trick...
...quitted (picked up) trick may be demanded for examination by a player whose side has not led or played to the following trick. (Brand...
...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...