Word: whist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...
...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...
With fellow Professors Billy Phelps and Johnny Berdan (also retired), who are his whist cronies, Keller has long been one of Yale's greatest teachers. In his famed anthropology and S.O.S. (Science of Society) courses, he has taught some 16,000 Yale men. Honest as an old shoe, gruff Dr. Keller shocked his classes with his hard-bitten views on politics, religion, charity, sentimental humanitarianism...