Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Underwood: "A royal flush. But as times progressed and we reached modern developments and modern ideas, innovations have been introduced into the game. They now allow deuces to run wild. I believe that is the term...
Senator Reed of Missouri: "Why does the Senator from Alabama want to change the old rules of the Senate if he is against changing the old rules of poker? I think we have an illustration here, not of deuces running wild, but of a very fine ace running wild...
...hand is one which contains ace, king, queen, jack, ten of one suit ("a royal flush"). The lowest possible hand is two, three, four, five, seven in four different suits ("seven high"). There are many variants on the game as here described. In one of them, known as "deuces wild," any deuce is by courtesy allowed to represent any card of any suit in the evaluation of a hand. Since a large part of the game consists in guessing the value of opponents' cards, absolute control of facial expression is an essential...
...Cummins has probably pursued the wisest course. He has conducted a quiet "personal" campaign, without rushing out to his constituents with wild alarms. His supporters have told Iowa that it must choose "Cummins or Communism." But on the whole they have not done much speechmaking. On the main issue, farm relief, the Senator made a speech last week in the Senate declaring...
There are certain U. S. artists who concentrate on painting the wild places of the earth?deserts, jungles, arctic waste. Last week two groups of such painters appeared in the news...