Word: whist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suppose that we must read it--after the poem at the start. The second entry is something that someone wrote, but was either too tired or too wise to sign, called "On the Job." It concerns "Camp Devens" and a game of "bridge whist" and "barracks"--with all such intimate local color...
...Maxwell Conover is the sister of the title role and plays the part of a spoiled society woman in a most commendable manner. The other principle parts are well taken by Ida Vernon and Charles Canfield, with some twenty more to fill in as guests in the thrilling bridge whist scene...
...great mistake not to have Harvard get into the game. If there is anybody in the spectators' seats who is expert at ping-pong or bridge-whist, and does not appreciate the hard work and intense interest the coach and the players are putting into the game, whatever the result, let him at least stop coming down to the field simply to criticise and offer namby-pamby suggestions. Let him show rather that he has some spirit, energy and enthusiasm...