Word: whistly
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...This Whist Club was founded in Manhattan in 1893. It admits only about 100 resident members. The president is Charles M. Schwab, famed steel king; the members are almost all socially and financially impeccable. It is a small, quiet, publicity-shy club; existing only for card games, but nowadays not Whist...
...prototype of the Whist Club is the Portland Club in London. For years the Portland Club made the laws for all of England. Other clubs complained, forced the Portland Club to call their members to a lawmaking committee. So also with the Whist Club; a few years ago other U. S. clubs grumbled at what they considered to be "unwarranted authority." Now the laws are made by a committee of various prominent card clubs. But the laws are still issued by The Whist Club...
...Portland Club in London one afternoon in the last decade of the 19th Century, strode Lord Brougham with an idea. He summoned three of his acquaintances around him and called for a pack of cards. He outlined to them a game that later was to become known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize card tables...
Before Bridge there was for many years Whist; and on Whist are the fundamentals of all types of Bridge laid. Whist was played with a pack of 52 cards; dealt one at a time to four players; partners two and two. The last card was turned up and its suit (hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds) determined the trump. One player led a card, face up on the table, and the others played to it in rotation. The players shedding the highest card of the suit (ace high, king next and so on down to two) took the trick. If his hand...
...Bridge Whist soon supplanted...