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...when he, the direct operator, needed a plant at Pittsburgh. The Judge was further irritated by President Schwab's behavior at Monte Carlo. Reports came that the very President of the U. S. Steel Corp., that "good" corporation, was reveling on the Riviera, that he was playing roulette, vingt-et-un, chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes of thousands of dollars. Mr. Schwab has never smoked. He has drunk sparingly. He has been a devoted husband. Yet he has always liked a pleasant game of cards. If he did gamble a bit at Monte Carlo, the stakes meant...
...excited gendarme wrenched a Parisian telephone instrument off its hook. "Fleurns, vingt-huit, trente!" he cried?the number of the private residence of Marshal Foch. Soon the gendarme commenced to sputter with vigor and at length...
...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
Instances like this of the cable-coil call up the vision of a new Frankenstein. The terror of the men on board the ship, helpless before the caprices of the huge drum, can be readily imagined even by those who have not read "Quatre-vingt-treize". The picture of man cowering before the creations of his own hand, which have grown beyond his control and turn to "plague the inventor," is a favorite spectra with a certain school of philosophers, and with alarmists in general. "R. U. R.", on the New York stage, is a fanciful prophecy of what...
FRENCH 6. - I. I. Rousseau, Morceaux Choisis; Victor Hugo, Quatre Vingt-treize, and Balzac, Une tenebreuse Affaire are to be read outside, in the order given...