Word: cribs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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These words, I realize, can readily be twisted into a charge that an attempt is being made to restrict, restrain, crib cabin and confine the legislative body in the interest of the executive. I pause therefore to say with all possible emphasis that this is a suggestion for broadening and strengthening the powers of the legislative body, and making it an even more important factor in national organization. Legislative bodies are not strong in detail but in general principle; they are most competent not in the minutiae of government but in the determination of the general directives of government action...
...your fine account [March 18] of the cribbage tournament and presentation of the history, theory and practice of the game. But you make no mention of that almost fabulous will-o'-the-wisp, that ultima Thule of all cribbage players, the "29 hand." It is to crib fans what the hole-in-one is to the golfer, the 13-spade hand to the bridge player. . . . Three generations of our family watched and waited for it, in vain, till on a rainy night in the winter of '32, when playing with my husband before the traditional blazing logs...
Between the players is a board with two double rows of 30 holes each and gameholes at the end. In six-card cribbage, most popular of the game's variations, six cards are dealt to each player, two of which are discarded face down for the crib (which belongs to the dealer). The rest of the pack is cut and a "starter" card turned up. Then the players play out their hands-each in turn laying a card face up on his own side of the table, calling out the number of pips on each card...