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...Church," Dr. Matthews pointed out that no one can become evangelistic who does not believe in "the Virgin Birth, the Deity of Christ, His vicarious death, physical resurrection and ascension. ..." Nor can a worldly person make a conversion. "No deaconess ever led a girl to Christ at the whist table." Estimating modernism and rationalism as failures, he recommends positive, evangelical action...
...distance of the gates of Schonbrunn (the summer palace) the Emperor was known simply as "The Colonel." He dearly loved to come over in the evenings and argue with the cook. Gay Austrian officers called him "Herr Schratt" behind his back. For years he used to play tarok (Austrian whist) with Frau Kathe and two old cronies, Herr Palmer, head of the Austrian Bank and a wealthy Jewish banker...
Resigned, cheerful in prison, she made friends with attendants, embroidered herself a silk shroud. All night before her execution she played whist with friends, stopped at midnight to make them some oyster stew. At dawn she marched off, unsupported, between two guards. She bantered with newsmen, posed for photographers, shook hands with the warden, kissed the guards, walked firmly up the steps to the gallows. Death was instantaneous, for the jerk of the noose cut off her head...
...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...