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Language Game. Ling-Whist, a card game that will teach players 300 words of either French or Spanish, has been put on the market by Manhattan's Games of the Month, Inc. Each card in the 120-card deck contains a letter of the alphabet, its phonetic pronounciation and point value. Object: build the cards into one of the 100 sentences or expressions shown in an instruction book. Price...
...late Earl of Yarborough, for whose family title the whist hand without honors was supposedly named...
...Washington, the President invited Russell to the White House for dinner, and Mrs. Lincoln sent bouquets. Secretary of State Seward had him round for whist, showed him the day's confidential dispatch to the U.S. Minister in London, and painstakingly explained...
Warleggon soon decided that the new rector was, to say the least, standoffish. He refused to shake hands with his parishioners, explaining that he was offended by the old Cornish custom of spitting in the palms before hefting a pitchfork. He banned the traditional whist party in the parish house. "A whist drive," he said, "is an amusement, and amusements come from hell." He refused to conduct a Sunday school, because Sunday schools are unmentioned in the Bible. He wanted to get rid of the venerable church organ, since he disliked organ music-"a gabbled profanity" he called...
Talk of euchre or of whist...