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...baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze of a mysterious beggar. Poet de la Mare loves not only poetic language and tricks of speech, but poetic words as well: whist, clomb, darnelled. He writes swang instead of swung because he likes the sound...
...While the Vanderbilt Cup tournament was in progress last week, the Whist Club's Committee on Laws announced a new international code for contract which contains five major changes in scoring and a change in the penalty for revoking...
...Philip Hal Sims, Howard Schenken, Willard S. Kara & David Burnstine, famed "Four Horsemen" of the Deal (N. J.) Bridge Club: the team-of-four contract championship at the American Whist League Congress in Cleveland; with 18½ matches out of a possible...
...student helped the defendant in an interesting case in an East Boston court for assault and battery. The complainant who called herself "Minnie the Squaw", was playing whist with the defendant when she mentioned that the defendant's husband had "been hanging around her lately." The defendant denied this vigorously. A "brawl" ensued in which the furniture was damaged and glasses broken. The Bureau won the case for the defendant...
...Willard S. Karn, natty Manhattan oil-heater salesman and fat Philip Hal Sims of Deal, N. J.: the contract pair championship of the National Bridge tournament; at Philadelphia. Salesman Karn, who also holds (with Mr. Sims, Oswald Jacoby, and David Burnstine of Manhattan's Knickerbocker Whist Club) the Vanderbilt Cup for teams of four and the National "Masters" championship, is the only man in the history of bridge tournaments to have all three major titles at the same time...