Word: trumps
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...After cut for deal, the first hand is dealt, and trump card turned. Each player places the card he plays face up ward before him. The side winning each trick takes one of a pile of thirteen counters in the middle of the table...
...soon as each hand is played, each player shuffles his hand and places it on the table or floor at his right, keeping hands in regular order. The trump card is turned on top of the dealer's hand...
Harvard has challenged us to a four-mile race next summer, and we have accepted. Therefore, the difficulty of last summer is practically settled. We shall not trump up old issues and argue as to the advisability of having accepted this challenge, but since the die has been cast and the crew pledged to row, we call on every man to lay aside personal prejudice and to support the crew to the best of his ability. Many men are probably not satisfied that Harvard has made due reparation in sending a challenge without an accompanying apology. They therefore deem...
...trump blew loud from the castle wall...
...WRITER in the last Advocate kindly forestalls the last trump, and sits in judgment upon the Harvard student. We had expected light weight, but were surprised at total depravity. The Harvard student is reduced to a pygmy in the presence of the heroic figure that impersonates with that author the sublimed and etherealized student. Mental indifference and moral baseness furnish the lighter portions of the picture, for which fine clothes and cigarettes afford a sombre background. We recognize the tenderness with which he has touched off our little weaknesses as flowing from that culture which is most "sympathetic with every...