Word: trumps
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...trump the first trick scores 40, all others 30. Thus it is now possible to score a game (100 points) in three hands of one no-trump each-impossible under the old method of scoring odd tricks at 30, even ones...
...Union waitresses gathered in an excited throng about Miss Murray Just before the meal last night. There was much tittering and giggling and wondering what the trouble could be. Some claimed Miss Murray was attempting to explain the four-five no trump bid in the reaching of grand slams. Others had it that the new and amorous looking policeman on a local beat was causing considerable upheaval among the hearts of the waiting lasses...
...Geraldine, Mont., Mrs. R. M. Porter was dealt 13 spades, bid seven spades, was overbid by her spadeless partner with seven no trump, doubled, vulnerable. He made...
...night (capacity: 5,000). Pasquale Amato, genial oldtime Metropolitan baritone, had supplanted Salmaggi as artistic director. Salmaggi had tried to compete at the Broadway Theatre a few blocks away. Both had the same standard repertory in which Verdi predominated. But last week Amato played the deciding trump when he engaged 40 Metropolitan choristers, 40 Metropolitan orchestramen, made an honest bargain out of 99? opera...
...forced to fight Japan at the end of the Trans-Siberian 5,600 miles from Moscow will be at an appalling disadvantage. But as Commissar for Air he is believed to feel that the Red Air Force (2,000 planes) is Russia's joker, her super-trump card against Japan...