Word: carding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. card players realized they might have to deal with a green suit in their waking moments. From Vienna, via London, had come a new 65-card, five-suit bridge deck,* the added 13-card suit dubbed "royals" and embossed with a green emblem patterned after Britain's Imperial Crown. Thought up one summer night last year by Austrian Gamester Walther Marseille, an ascetic-looking Ph.D. who has trouble getting to sleep, five-suit or super-bridge, got its real impetus at the British Industries Fair last week, when the King & Queen bought two decks while...
Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...
...even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas of more easily filled straights, green flushes, and a new one-eyed jack for the wild games...
...several years U. S. card experts have experimented with five-suit games. One such, devised last summer by A. A. Jordan of Virginia Beach, Va., has a crown-emblem fifth suit...
...city in an uproar (TIME, Feb. 28). In an hour 2,700 copies of the 10? Focus were snapped up. San Antonio's gasping public tried not to believe Leslie White's timely charge that "it is possible for a four-plus syphilitic to obtain a health card from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted, but harassed Mayor Charles Kennon Quin of San Antonio fulminated: "I always make it a rule...