Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost French daily. In 1914 he entered the Chamber of Deputies under the most potent auspices possible?as the protege of "Tiger" Clémenceau. But at the trump of War he ducked out of politics, clattered off to the front as a spruce Captain of Chasseurs, got himself three-times wounded, was several times cited for bravery...
...quick tricks, his bid must be one diamond, no matter how much length he has in any particular suit, and you may then declare your real strength. If he has two quick tricks, he is given the choice of bidding either a no-trump or his best suit. (If that suit be diamonds, he must bid two diamonds.) Obviously, the advantage of the Vanderbilt bid lies in the fact that the bidding is kept open and the strong three-trick hand is allowed to bid again after learning the strength of its partner...
...Coal Is Trump. Of course such ringing blarney was not the only trump in the hand of Privy Seal Jim (one of the best bridge players in London and always for highest stakes). His long suit was a scheme which he privately unfolded to that shrewd though cherub-faced statesman Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister in Canada...
...often loses. Marshall's style is fascinating to the onlooker, but usually does not finish him high up among first class players. He invented what is known as the Cambridge Springs variation in the Queen's Gambit. Marshall is also a bridge expert with a fondness for No Trump bids...
...After this incident we separated for a time and made up with a solemn pledge never to play together again. We were happy together until Aug. 19. We were at the home of friends and they brought out the bridge table. Mr. Wood doubled a one no trump bid and I, disgusted with a bust hand, forgot to take him out of it. Again he hit me and we have been separated ever since...