Word: whist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Judah was not busily promoting railroads or flourishing what his opponents called his "oily, plausible pertinacity" in courtrooms, he was trying to raise the best sugar in Louisiana. For recreation, Benjamin would recite from memory "a wonderful stock" of verses (he was a passionate admirer of Tennyson), play whist, harpoon devilfish. His appreciation of good food and drink was vast...
...Aunt Maud, a middle-class lady who, in letters, keeps her nephew in the army informed on Home Front conditions, particularly the feud between the Whist Club Committee and the Impoverished Gentlewoman's True Blue Conservative Associaation; Uncle Fred and the ironmonger-the local Home Guard unit is too small to hold them both; Aunt Maud's gardener, who persistently reads Karl Marx and who says "It is no use planting anything this spring as we shall have the revolution before the onions come...
...Dictated by the Whist Club of New York and the American Contract Bridge League...
Opposition. No longer could cynics-as they had in the days of Vichy appeasement-accuse the State Department of "playing 18th-Century whist with 20th-century bandits." The U.S. was now, under the stress of war, playing somewhat of a bandits' game itself...
...crucial board, Messrs. Rapee & Fry of the Cavendish team bid three diamonds, made five, scored 150 points (including so-point bonus for under-game contract). Playing the same hand in another room, Messrs. Hazen & Frey of the Bridge Whist team bid five hearts, were doubled, redoubled, made their bid, and, being vulnerable, scored 1,100 points. The money hand, opened by Hazen with a daring three-heart...