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His family - including eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren - visit him often, which he loves, and play cards with him, including whist.

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Also, this is likely the only hip-hop song in history to mention the card game whist.

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Bid whist, for our generation, was the national Black pastime.

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When the book opens the punctilious Phileas Fogg lives by the clock, his schedule never varying, each day passed almost entirely at London’s Reform Club, where he reads the newspapers, dines and plays whist.

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She did not appear when we afterwards went up to Miss Havisham’s room, and we four played at whist.

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