Word: decking
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...collection of playing cards dating from the early "Ludus Cartularum" of the German Middle Ages to the modern bridge deck has been recently presented to the Widener Library by J. E. Whitney '89, who has been collecting the cards for more than 20 years...
...reference of a German monk in 1377 to the "Ludus Cartularum", pastime of the kings and nobles. The pack seems to have consisted of 52 cards containing four suits, very much like the cards of the present day. There were ten numbered and three court cards in a deck. The suite marks on the former were very similar to the modern ones, and the latter consisted of a King and two Marshals, the "Obermann" and Untermann", one of whom held a sign upward in his hand and the other a downward sign...
...lingerie, laughter, lullabies: The Mikado, Chauve-Souris, A Night in Spain, Good News, Manhattan Mary, Hit the Deck...
...Girl came down close to the tanker Barendrecht. Even if the oil system had functioned, the gasoline supply was too low to negotiate the distance. The pilots crawled on to the wings of the plane, bobbing precariously on a choppy, fresh-blown sea. Soon both were hauled to the deck of the tanker...
Patrons with, tired eyes, and ears will find these good prescriptions: Manhattan Mary, Peggy-Ann, The Mikado, Good News, Hit the Deck, Chauve-Souris...