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...became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...menceau. Mr. Warren declared roundly that he had never seen M. Clémenceau in better health and spirits or more fully in touch with the current situation in France. The famed whiskers may droop like the tusks of an old walrus, but between them the decisive jaw continues to snap with the fierce pugnacity of a bulldog...
...refers to the late Senator Lodge's book and his opinion of our late President. ... I feel like every true lover of Woodrow Wilson should protest the publishing of such a book. . . . And I don't hesitate to say that I don't give a snap of my fingers for Mr. Lodge's opinion of President Wilson...
Like a new cigaret-case, the game between Illinois and Iowa opened and closed with a snap. "Red" Grange (Ill.) picked up the opening kick-off and ran 80 yards for a touchdown in the last minute of the last half, with the score 10 to 6 against his team. "Cowboy Knick" Kutsch (Iowa) ran 32 yards to the Illinois one-yard line; crossed it on the next play as the whistle blew. Score: Iowa 12; Illinois...
...down on the ball together. Finney and Hurd rushed finely, while Phillips played a steady, reliable game throughout. Kimball made several pretty runs and dodged very well, while Peabody tackled splendidly. The halfbacks were, however, lamentably weak in kicking, apparently using very little headwork. The centre rush should snap the ball back without wasting so much time, and the quarterback should take in the situation better and know more surely what is the correct thing to do with the ball. If the rush line had not talked so much to the referee and to their opponents, their play would have...