Word: trumps
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...spring, the music world behaves irregularly. Grand operas and orchestras pack up and travel. Divas obey their pocketbooks or their temperaments. Experimenters trump their partners' aces. Hinterland critics cry bravo. Last week's news...
While Cardinal Gasparri held out for and secured to the Papacy the technical right of appointment, Dr. Benes was able to cover this trump with the proviso that Papal appointments in Czechoslovakia shall be made only with the consent of the State...
...down amid roars of applause. In vain pallid Lord Hugh Cecil* coldly interjected: "The Church of England is not, after all, a mere society for the better contradiction of the Pope." In vain, for the House had risen to "No Popery!" as a nation rises blindly to the trump of war. At 11:30 p. m. a division (vote) was taken. Into the "nays" lobby rushed Conservative Viscounts Astor, Liberal David Lloyd George, Laborite James Henry Thomas (famed "balance wheel of British Labor") and other members of wildly assorted parties to a total of 238. Into the "ayes" lobby filed...
...Whist; and on Whist are the fundamentals of all types of Bridge laid. Whist was played with a pack of 52 cards; dealt one at a time to four players; partners two and two. The last card was turned up and its suit (hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds) determined the trump. One player led a card, face up on the table, and the others played to it in rotation. The players shedding the highest card of the suit (ace high, king next and so on down to two) took the trick. If his hand was lacking in cards of the suit...
...bridge, to trump partner...