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...t, hawk-eyeing everyone malevolently. Sure enough, he doesn't like us. He clears all other players, letting us bet in splendid isolation, facing eac... ... moonlight, the practiced smiles are lifted, wiped is the feigned civility of all involved. Players and house alike frantically observe each card, e... ...ting body language. Small wonder she joined me from behind. If she were really a ravishing Russian spy she could have easily stabbed me in the back... ..." - she summed flatly, as though she were reporting the outcome of an inordinately complex chess match. As though this "fact" had equal standing wi...

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...red the daylight into a dirty blue. A 60 J.Cross/Artemis couple of dozen players sat around assorted sized card tables with green felt that drap... ...ottle of DOS XXs stood on the table like a lone green King in the center of a chessboard. Brand walked over to the table and stood there without say... ... Latinos. You should know that," Cardona said feeling as if he were playing a chess game, and losing. "The choice is yours," Brand said coolly, and... ... Nations would be pushing hard for full membership into the Alliance, and the Russian's staunch opposition to it, favoring a 120 J.Cross/Artemis ... ...p Alliance instead, with several escape clauses attached. The talk of another Russian revolution was gathering like dark clouds on the horizon. The o... ...k clouds on the horizon. The old KGB and the disgruntled military against the Russian people could amount to another Stalinesque slaughter. The se... ...lso include within the Asian market, the Tongs and Triads. But they are minor players, primarily in distribution.” "You're not including the United... ... have never trusted you, Senor Branderos. You play both sides, like a game of chess.” “That’s his job,” Cardona interjected. “And you, Cardona, a... ... and learn. This drug business, we have chosen, is a very complicated one. The players all play by their own rules. But there is no place for bad jud...

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...tomic nuclear meltdown. The true meaning of the name Chernobyl comes from the Russians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing ... ...ssians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing their own Russian nobility. The ecological destruction of Russia stemmed from t... ...r global destruction, it would not have destroyed itself. Furthermore… if the Russians had not fallen in love with their fucking Czar and their corr... ...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...ult ability and can control the ball with their racquets enough to beat other players who have wasted most of their lives trying to win… Competiti... ...ecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of their life t... ...that if you bowl dance, ski, sail, camp, swim, roller-skate, play volleyball, chess, bridge, and play music. You have to join fifteen different cul... ...tted around. How many board games are based upon the idea of decapitation? Chess, Checkers, Chinese checkers, card games, the throwing of dice, t...

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...ondly, in our attitude toward athletics. There is danger that not only the players who partici- pate in the games, but those' who sit on the bleachers... ...ed and one error. Two double plays occurred, in one of which four Williams players fig- ured. Warren took the batting honors by securing three hits fr... ...on of asBistant track manager. FRIDAY, MAY 8 2.30 p. in.^—Williams-Amherst chess match, Amherst. SATURDAY, MAY 4 ' 2.00 p. m.—Williams - Brown track m... ...mands on the Will- iams team, weakened as it is by the loss of two leading players. A jieculiar feature of the list is that the principal period of th... ...ssia. " Ho pointed out the fact that the great problem which confronts the Russian peas- ant today is lack of land. In his ignorance he cannot see bey... ...t Hopkins returned to Williamstowu on Friday after- noon. A meeting of the chess club for organization will be held this afternoon at 4 p. m. " An iro... ...cooperation ie imperative for ihe more eflficient operation of the Bureau. Chess Club Officers A meeting of the chess club was held in Jesup Hall Mond... ...sting. The first trio, by Gretch- aninow, a comparatively unknown nioilern Russian composer, began with an allegro impassionato, which was odd, almost... ...culiarly wild, mourn- ful minors which are distinctively and fascinatingly Russian. To one who has heard the triomany times, the work of the 'cellist,...

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.... He was dressed in his usual red satin smoking jacket; a half played game on a chess board separated them. "Who are you playing the game with?" Ala... ...etting the stage, scripting every scene, and directing it with a deft hand. The players only acted out the parts that he had created. Tonight he wou... ...ve Environmental Press Conference with a united front. After all, we are all co-players in the same game and our concerns, as yours, are for the sur... ...." "Get to the point, Bobby." "Let's start with a few assumptions. Who are the players? The partners, if you will. I peg them to be Pierce, Cox, Al... ...ld not be deterred. And Pierce was intractable. Each event was like a move on a chess­ board, always demanding a counter move that ultimately would ... ... into high gear. He loved the thought of assaulting the citadel. In his game of chess he had bought off his oppo­ nent's most important pieces. The b... ...d our defense capabilities to the point that we are vulnerable to attack by the Russians." "The Russians? Are you crazy?" "No, Sir. General Lamont ... ...mand that we once again pursue a policy of a nuclear arms build up, so that the Russians will not attack." "Have you ever heard anything like this?... ...t has long held radical ideas. In addition to his misguided current view of the Russians, he be­ lieves we should institute a policy of enlisting loc...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree....

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...1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece ... ...finished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the li... ...thing which, for want of a better term, might be called the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader familiar with the works of Dostoieffsky, T... ...hough, with arms sharply crooked and legs slightly bent, the said billiard players were taking the most careful aim, but succeeding only in making abo... ...from till supper time; and during that period all conversation between the players became hushed, as is the custom when men have given themselves up t... ...o members of the various suits. I need hardly add that, the game over, the players fell to quarrelling, and that in the dispute our friend joined, tho... ...ot agree to an exchange?” “No.” “Then look here. Suppose we play a game of chess. If you win, the souls shall be yours. There are lot which I should l... ...ould like to see crossed off the revision list. Hi, Porphyri! Bring me the chessboard.” “You are wasting your time. I will play neither chess nor card... ...d.” “You are wasting your time. I will play neither chess nor cards.” “But chess is different from playing with a bank. In chess there can be neither ...

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...om Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ the Russian officer’s adventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabe... ...o the traveler. T ruly this was a deed of gold. Such was the action of the Russian servant whose master’s carriage was pursued by wolves, and who spra... ...astplate of British pearls that Caesar dedicated to Venus. A band of flute-players followed, and then came the white oxen that were to be sacrificed, ... ...bo, with a guard of fifty Cossacks, was go- ing to take the command of the Russian outpost of Lars, one of the forts by which the Russian Czars have s... ...the evening had been more than usually gay, and had been spent in games at chess, tables, or backgammon, reading ro- mances of chivalry, harping, and ... ...the death of a king; and this same carnival night, James, while playing at chess with a young friend, whom he was wont to call the king of love, laugh... ...morse manifested itself, he died while setting up the pieces for a game at chess, on the 17th of March, 1584. 187 Yo n g e This has been a horrible s...

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...to; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the ... ...t is entirely independent of him. Y.M. Go on. Illustrate. O.M. Do you know chess? Y.M. I learned it a week ago. O.M. Did your mind go on playing the g... ... that it can conduct its affairs, sing Mark T wain 47 its songs, play its chess, weave its complex and ingeniously constructed dreams, while you slee... ...e all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the American... ...racter with which we are not acquainted does not offend us—Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and the others—they have an interesting look, and we see b... ... the severe superin tendence and correction of the master. He was a prime chess player and an idolater of Shakespeare. He would play chess with anybo... ...f him as an actor. Next year—1593—his name appears in the official list of players. Next year—1594—he played before the queen. A detail of no conseque... ... had not only a casual engagement, was not only a salaried servant, as may players were, but was a shareholder in the company of the Queen’s players w...

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... sheathed in Northern woods carved and cut in open-work like the beautiful Russian chalets. The little antechamber formed by the landing and the well ... ... Legion of honor and major of a regiment of cavalry. Taken prisoner by the Russians he was sent, like so many others, to Siberia. He made the journey ... ... BY in solemn stillness broken only by the cabalistic phrases of the whist-players: “Spades!” “T rumped!” “Cut!” “How are honors?” “T wo to four.” “Wh... ...ortune.” So saying, Butscha resumed his seat, remarking to the three whist-players with an assumption of calmness, “Whose deal is it?” but within his ... ...a bullet in my face; I have crossed Siberia and been a prisoner there; the Russians flung me on a kibitka, and God knows what I suffered. I have seen ... ... it is to obviate any inconvenient results of this temporary equality that players have the right, after the game is over, not to recognize each other... ...d on the lawn before the house; for huntsmen of his calibre are like great chess-players who can predict a checkmate under certain circumstances. The ...

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... and at these tables some fifty or seventy-five students [1. See Appendix C] were sitting. Some of them were sipping wine, others were playing cards, ... ...t easily, still he contrived to accomplish a slow and troublesome lun- cheon while the last duel was preparing. The man who was the worst hurt of all ... ...ra, but not fond of sitting in the presence of an audience; therefore, it has some- times occurred, in Munich, that when an opera has been concluded a... ... off their paint and finery, a command has come to them to get their paint and finery on again. Presently the King would arrive, solitary and alone, a... ... you ask too much for this article?’ and he replied with the ques- tion, ‘Do you think you are obliged to buy it?’ However, these people are not impol... ...ed to generals and nobles. If you wish to see what abysses servil- ity can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shop- keeper in the characte... ...d ladies occupy a tank together, and amuse themselves with rompings and various games. They have float- ing desks and tables, and they read or lunch o... ...ster hue of death. This was the third right hand found; therefore, all three of the lost men were accounted for, beyond cavil or question. Dr. Hamel w...

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... be shaped in the body like the kings and queens, knights and pawns of the chessboard, so strange were their differences, so marked and so implicitly ... ...t to leap and swing. Look! How they mince!” “Have you seen those wonderful Russian dancers?” be- gan Mrs. Elliot. But Helen saw her partner coming and... ... ringed with white. Just behind the stuffed leopard Mr. Elliot was playing chess with Mr. Pepper. He was being defeated, naturally, for Mr. Pepper sca... ...day, it somehow doesn’t show.” “Pepper, you have me,” said Mr. Elliot. “My chess is even worse than I remembered.” He accepted his defeat with great e... ...o—that’s dreadful. Of farm labourers; no—not of the English at all, but of Russians and Chi- nese.” This train of thought did not satisfy her, and was... ...ther. I’d give all I have in the world to help on a revolution against the Russian government, and it’s bound to come.” She looked from Rachel to Tere... ...hey were comfortable, and had nothing to do. On the sofa, beside the chess-players, Mrs. Elliot was imparting a new stitch in knitting to Mrs. Thornbu...

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...a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found... ...s flushed: the great game of war was going to be played, and he one of the players. What a fierce excite- ment of doubt, hope, and pleasure! What trem... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ...n and to her. He ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. The pawns were little green and white men, with real ... ...go’s own set at the Pineries was not so fine,” Mr. Pestler remarked. These chess-men were the delight of Georgy’s life, who printed his first letter i... ...g with her, and copying music and verses into her albums, and play- ing at chess with her very submissively; for it is with these simple amusements th...

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...a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good handful of Scandinavians, a German or two, and one Russian; all now belonging for ten days to one small iron ... ...ccordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with gen... ...an express her surprise that ‘the ship didna gae doon,’ as she saw some one pass her with a chess-board on the holy day. Some sang Scottish psalms. Ma... ..., heaving deck. We had many fine-weather diversions to beguile the time. There was a single chess-board and a single pack of cards. Sometimes as many ... ...as entertainment in the man’s demeanour. You might call him a half-educated Irish Tigg. Our Russian made a remarkable contrast to this impos- sible fe... ...l occupy an hour. It will be found to set an excellent edge on this diversion if one of the players shall, every day or so, write a report of the oper... ...pany of actors able, as you will be told, to act. This last you will take on trust, for the players, unlike the local sheet, confine themselves to Ger... ...th everything, from the Quarterly to the Sunday at Home. Grand tournaments are organised at chess, draughts, billiards and whist. Once and again wande...

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...s flushed: the great game of war was going to be played, and he one of the players. What a fierce excite- 48 V anity Fair – V olume Two ment of doubt... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ...n and to her. He ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. The pawns were little green and white men, with real ... ...go’s own set at the Pineries was not so fine,” Mr. Pestler remarked. These chess-men were the delight of Georgy’s life, who printed his first letter i... ...g with her, and copying music and verses into her albums, and play- ing at chess with her very submissively; for it is with these simple amusements th...

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... explained by his actual suffering during the emigration. He served in the Russian navy until the day when the Emperor Alexander ordered him to be emp... ...w down their cards during the game; but their play is held to be null. The players can exchange their cards with the remainder of the pack, as in ecar... ... as in ecarte, but only by order of sequence, so that the first and second players may, and sometimes do, absorb the remainder of the pack between the... ...ic wiliness; also play of countenance. At the hotel du Guenic, each of the players took twenty counters, represent- ing five sous; which made the sum ... ...d truly, and for himself alone. Aurelie refused to make the happiness of a Russian prince who of- fered her five thousand francs a month. “You are a l... ...quis and endeavored to en- tice Madame Schontz away from him, but like the Russian prince they wasted their old age. “Listen to me,” she said to Finot... ...for to-night my plan will be made, and I shall have chosen the pawns on my chess- board to carry it out. In the days of her splendor Beatrix re- fused...

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...s to kill time, during the frequent calms, Long Ghost hit upon the game of chess. With a jack-knife, we carved the pieces quite tastefully out of bits... ...riate, seeing that they had reason to feel sad three games out of four. Of chess, the men never could make head nor tail; indeed, their wonder rose to... ... severely denouncing the undeniable er- rors of the mission, Kotzebue, the Russian navigator, says, “A religion like this, which forbids every innocen... ...cushion when the next king went to be crowned. But it was not as strolling players, nor as footmen out of employ, that the doctor and myself looked fo... ...he cried. “Heav- ens! my head’s all wheels and springs, like the automaton chess-player! What’s to be done, Paul? I’m poisoned.” But, after drinking a...

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...ainst physical pain almost as powerful as that of the 26 Sons of the Soil Russians or the Arabs. “Here’s one of Cooper’s Red-skins,” thought Blondet;... ...Tall and strong, he belonged to the class of soldiers accustomed, like the Russians, to obey, passively and absolutely. Nothing hin- dered him in the ... ...hidden wires, the handling of which amused him as though it were a game of chess where the pawns were alive, the knights caracoled, the bishops, like ... ...“Tolerably, yes; sometimes they’ll have a row, but that’s only natural for players.” All heads were at the window of the Soudry salon which looked to ... ...Fayes, who was on a visit to the chateau, were all playing either whist or chess. It was about half-past eleven o’clock when Joseph entered and told h...

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...ians in Italy, the Prussians in Germany, and menaced in Switzerland by the Russians, in whom Suwarow had inspired hopes of the conquest of France. The... ...vot. These “hedges” and echaliers give the region the appearance of a huge chess-board, each field forming a square, perfectly isolated from the rest,... ...am stifling here.” And she motioned towards a small room where a few card- players were assembled. The marquis followed her. He ven- tured to hope she...

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...bserved the of ficer, with as much indifference as if the principals were chess men, and the seconds players. ‘I think we may,’ replied Mr. Snodgras... ...as much indifference as if the principals were chess men, and the seconds players. ‘I think we may,’ replied Mr. Snodgrass; who would have assented t... ... for Pope Joan, and the The Pickwick Papers 70 other for whist. The whist players were Mr. Pickwick and the old lady, Mr. Miller and the fat gentlema... ... to do the same kind office for the hitherto uncon quered Podder. Several players were stationed, to ‘look out,’ in different parts of the field, and... ...oor, which door itself opened, and displayed the great Pott accoutred as a Russian officer of justice, with a tremen dous knout in his hand—tastefull...

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... The lettering on the cylinders puzzled him. At first sight it seemed like Russian. Then he noticed a suggestion of muti- lated English about certain ... ...ed to Antioch and Genoa and jostled Spanish- English at Gdiz, a Gallicised Russian which met the Indian English in Persia and Kurdistan and the “Pidgi... ...id had been of singular service, and it was now invariably invoked by such players of chess and games of manual dexterity as were still to be found. I... ... of singular service, and it was now invariably invoked by such players of chess and games of manual dexterity as were still to be found. In fact, all...