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...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...
According to previous newspaper announcements, this was to be the funeral of a certain neighbor. The evangelist chanted no eulogy over the coffin. The dead man had committed every sin, he screamed. He was wicked, he had not been ready when the trump of Gabriel called him to judgment, and therefore he would go to eternal torment...
...occasion of every great game, ticket forgers have foisted off literal scores of false admission pasteboards on the West Point and Harvard public this week-end. It is not a new crime. It is not one that can be prevented. The law guardians may possibly overtake and trump two knaves, no more...
Just whom the atheists would send to their defence was not quite certain. It did not, however, seem probable that they would lack legal talent. Clarence S. Darrow was of course their loudest trump; Arthur Garfield Hays was another attorney in their lineup. Probably Charles Smith, a demure and smiling infidel, with the gracious manners of a country clergyman, would be present at the procedure...