Word: whist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the initial bidder, wanting stronger indication of his partner's strength, bids not one club but two in any suit. After many cigarets had been smoked and much ice-water sipped from black goblets the Vanderbilt trophy was presented to the team of the New York Bridge Whist Club. The winners had used the new forcing system. So had the Cavendish Club team, which came in second, and so had the Knickerbocker Club team, which was third. Of all the teams in the room, only the one on which Mr. Vanderbilt played used his convention. He finished tied...
...Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading away from aces is uncivilized, inasmuch as he, a member of the Knickerbocker Whist Club, ranks high among bankers who are also bridgers. As an employe of Fuller & Smith Co., Cleveland advertising agency, Mr. Steffan played many a rubber in Harry Dwight Smith's pleasant, photograph-adorned office, wrote also many a TIME advertisement...
...card game which Mr. Maschke was playing at his club was upstate whist,* requiring brains, not downstate poker, game of bluff. "I am not interested in anything Mr. Willis says. Anything he does is all right with me. . . . I'm through writing letters. But I'm going to make a speech one of these days and when I do I'll say a few things . . . ," said Mr. Maschke...
...engaged in a match against a combined team from New York and Detroit. Mr. Maschke's team lost, 27 boards to 25. But last June, Mr. Maschke and his three mates on the Cleveland Whist Club team won the U. S. auction bridge championship, at a tournament held in Hanover...
...course joined the Institute. Its members respected the judge; they liked Mr. Schwab. He often outwitted them in business. But he did so according to the rough & tumble rules they knew. He, himself, was a practical steel man; he told them boisterous stories; and he beat them at whist. The judge treated Mr. Schwab, as he did all men, with careful geniality. The two never were harmonious in spirit. One year Mr. Schwab refused to attend the Institute meetings. Friends urged him to be big-hearted and return...