North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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of one nation. The Civil War caused, they say, by differences concerning slave states and free states, concern- ing slavery and abolition. But the real cause-aha! In the National Bridge Tourney of 1850, the first thirteen to place were Northern States' entrees. The Southern Bridge Association protested the Tourney and followings severed re- lations with the Northern faction. In retaliation, independent Northern bridge addicts raided Harper's Ferry and destroyed a large amount of bridge cards stored there. The war followed. wk Ik Ill Ill ll' The inevitable let-down! Thou- sands of bridge-sick citizens search- ing for a Utopia for con-bridge-ers. The result was the migration to the West. What's an Indian compared to a garrulous Bridge player. ik Ik Pk 'lf Ill The sad period of cheap labor. Then relief for the poor worker! Unions, Federations of Unions! The mobilization of the laborers! And the start of the unions can honestly be laid to bridge. Conditions of bridge parties were such as to de- mand some sort of governing body. Some power was needed to regulate booby-prizes, to maintain law and order, and to outlaw professional players. So the Coalition of Bridge Players was formed, and from this coalition sprung the modern union. Indeed, the C. I. O. revolted against the A. F. of L. because of a difference of opinion concerning the psycho- logical advantages of secfond-hand- low. 214 Sk if Ik Ik The Caponian era. Gangs and rackets! Years of futile attempts to jail the Big Shot. Then, success! Al Capone was sentenced to prison, 6 MANET confined to a small cell with a shy- ster lawyer who was up for five years. Capone goes through the nerve wracking period of monotony. He longs for his daily ru-bber. But two can't play bridge, at least, two couldn't until Capone invented Honeymoon bridge and played it every evening with his inmate. Ill lk ik IF lk Time passes. We reach the Cul- bertson era of Bridge, now an in- tricate game. For further reference, inquire of Culbertson. l- Gone 70114 7fze 7ifincf by Leonore Johnson '39 As he stood up, Joe felt suddenly alone. Tense, eager faces strained up at him, waiting for the crucial moment. He had waited a whole year for this event, yet now he felt suddenly weak, and inadequate, for what if he should fail? How would he ever hold his head up again? He could almost hear the taunting, sar- castic laughs which would be the re- sult of a failure. Therefore, he stretched to his full height and bowed majestically. All-right, he said, will you please dim the lights? The room, which had seemed so large before, seemed to hold only a. sea of hostile, expectant faces. Silently, he wished, Oh, let it be a success. Let me earn their respect, this once. He inhaled deeply, closed his eyes, and. . .whoofl It was over! All at once he heard a cheer, so fear- fully, he glanced downward. At what he saw, his countenance lit up, and a smile crossed his face, for he had done it! He had blown out all the candles on his birthday cake!

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A number 1 gossipers and could ruin more reputations in five minutes that the ambitious English gentry could build in five generations. So far so good. But consider the ratio, a cup of coffee per ruined reputa- tion, and, totalling the cups of cof- fee, you arrive at a staggering amount of liquid, disregarding sugar, cream, and crumpets. The English society, in short, was spending every cent of that vast amount of money it didn't possess merely to feed its gossipers a decent amount of spirited coffee. When they arrived at the point where they had no more of someone's money to spend they ef- fected a reversal in fundamentals. At an emergnecy meeting of the Society Board of Blah the cogno- scenti fixed a new ratio of five repu- tations per game of bridge. Hence, you can see how the term 'grand slam' came into being. Barnabus Patrick was now famous, he was eventually knighted and died as Sir Barnabus Patrick O'Brydge, Earl of Humdrum, Founder of Brydge, and Protector of Parsnips. Time Marches On! 8 if S lk l The seven years' war! Famine! Carnage! Desolation! And Fred- erick the Great reaches the pinnacle of fame as the inventor of the 'Finesse'. The 'Finesse' is a ma- noeuver wherein you have the ace and the Jackg your opponent on the right, the Kingg and your partner, the Queen. Upon peeking in his hand while he reaches for an olive you observe the set-up and lead your Jack. If he lays off with his King, fearing the ace the doesn't cheatj he makes your Jack good. This piece of strategy laid the basis for Frederick's future political ac- tion. ll i lk if lk The Marquis of Mock, Philipe de la Phloppe, is commissioned to buy land in the New World. He carries out his orders and buys New Jersey for a pack of pinochle cards and a pamphlet on auction whist from the Algonquins. The Algonquins per- ceive the hoax too late, but being good losers, decide to take a try at some high class philan-dering them- selves. Thereupon, they invite the Seminole tribe up one afternoon for a bridge party and skin them out of house and home. But the Algon- quins don't like alligators and the Seminoles don't like sugar-cane and the result is King Philip's War . Time Marches On! Il! if il lk Ik Napoleon is sweeping across Eu- rope filling all nations with terror and leaving destruction in his path. On he roars, on to Waterloo. The inevitable meeting-the Iron Duke and the Little General! The ensuing battle, Napoleon's crushing defeat! And all because the Duke of Well- lington had a psychological ad- vantage! He had met Napoleon long before at a tea given by the latter at Versailles. During the course of the party, the Duke and his friend, the Earl of Letdown, had beaten Napoleon and Marshal Hey in three straight rubbers. Each time the rubber had depended on one play and each time the Duke had put over a psychic bid and sunk his opponents. This was the real cause of Napoleon's Waterloo. 42 lk lk Ik lk Years later! Another terrible war -this time between hostile factions MANET S

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Sa Zfau Qc 7a 'Wie Mwiei by Marion Mainwarning '39 Probably most of the pupils here at North go fairly often to the movies. Whether they realize it or not, a great many of the pictures they' see have a definite effect upon their school work. In English, in science, in civics, in business subjects, in languages, in history, and in geo- graphy, in art and in music, we study things that we have seen brought to life on the screeng in the theatre, we see people and places of which We already know through our school subjects. Science students could hardly fail to be inspired by The Story of Louis Pasteur, drawing students by Rem- brandt, or music students by Naughty Marietta, Show Boat, or Maytime. Business students and civics students find continual references to their work in pictures of modern times. Pupils who take Latin are made to realize, in many pictures, how great and important a language it has beeng pupils taking French or German see through the foreign films available that they are study- ing living languages spoken by mil- lions every day. The greatest contribution of the moving picture to the school, how- ever, is undoubtedly in the fields of history and literature. In many cases the two are very closely linked, often inseparably so. For instance, the film A Tale of Two Cities not only has a colorful historical setting, but also forms either a preparation for, or a supplement to, the reading of the book. Many pictures, of course, are disappointments because they can scarcely be associated with the books from which they are drawn, but, more and more, movies are being made closer to their origi- nals. It is not necessary, moreover, for a film to be historically accurate in every detail. If it recreates for the student the life, customs, and atmosphere of a certain epoch, it does well. Once it has aroused the pupil's interest in some particular subject, the subject itself will con- tinue to interest him. Students can learn facts from textbooks, but they gain a more valuable knowledge if they can appreciate the human side of history, and very often motion pictures aid this appreciation. Librarians all over the country re- port that when such pictures as So Red the Rose, The Good Earth, Mary of Scotland, and Captains Courageous are playing locally, the T-15 Gooo EARTH , ,,.x THE STORY or ,x louis PAST:-:UR Q 4 l lg ! 1 Y en' 1 QC' cg- , N ' W, K Jill xxx I ' ,L ff l- ,fy ,nl 1' I 'I I . .C ' X .L- f x .V v 'as nt, if - xfL1'3 A ,fa wv 6' Q- : XX 15' 1' wo - ' fl TQ- X459 :Oli M5 NAUGHTY NIANETTA 1 Mmm Mmwmn