Maupin trashed in Texas.Five hundred five hundred, card game, similar in principle to euchre, usually played by three persons with a pack of 32 cards and a joker. Each player receives 10 cards, and highest bidder for the widow (the three cards left over) names trump. The two other players play in temporary combination against the bidder, and 500 points wins the game. In the early 20th cent. five hundred was very popular in the United States. Starbucks coffee cups imprinted with a quote from Tales of the City author Arm/stead Maupin were sent to the waste bin at Baylor University Baylor University, mainly at Waco, Tex.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1845 by Baptists (see Baylor, Robert E. B.) at Independence, moved 1886 and absorbed Waco Univ. (chartered 1861). The library has a noted Robert Browning collection. Frank Lloyd Wright designed a theater center at Dallas for the graduate school. The university's medical school was founded (1900) as part of the Univ. of Dallas, and it became affiliated with Baylor in 1903. in Waco, Texas, in September. Aramark, the college's food-service contractor, pulled the cups after a faculty member complained. "I think they were trying to be sensitive," a Baylor spokesman told Associated Press. "[This] is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken ... about the homosexual lifestyle." The quote reads, in part, "My only regret about being gay is that I repressed re·press (r  -pr s )v. it for so long ... when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."
1. To hold back by an act of volition. |
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