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In January 1961, Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr., announced that control of the cabaret card system would be removed from the New York City Police Department to the Licensing Department. [8] Due to opposition from the new Mayor, John Lindsay and his appointed Licensing Commissioner, the system was abolished in its entirety in 1967, with the New ...
The New York City Cabaret Law was a dancing ban originally enacted in 1926, during Prohibition, [1] and repealed in 2017. [2] It referred to the prohibition of dancing in all New York City spaces open to the public selling food and/or drink unless they had obtained a cabaret license. It prohibited "musical entertainment, singing, dancing or ...
For example, on the sequence 1 ♣-1 ♠ (with or without opponent's interfering);1NT-2 ♣;2 ♦,2 ♥ will show an invitational hand with minimum five spades and four hearts, 2 ♠ an invitational hand with minimum five spades (in which case one does not have four hearts) or possibly six spades with or without four hearts. 2NT will show a balanced invitational hand, 3 ♣ typically an ...
The Bridge World (TBW) A monthly magazine based in New York City, The Bridge World is the oldest continuously published periodical concerning contract bridge, and the game's most prestigious technical journal. Broken sequence A sequence of honor cards, one or more of which is missing, for example AQJ. Bullet (Slang) An ace. Bump
The Drury convention is a bridge convention, used to show a game-invitational major suit raise by a passed hand while guarding against a light opening by partner in third or fourth seat. It is initiated by an artificial and forcing 2 ♣ response by the passed hand to a 1 ♥ or 1 ♠ opening by partner.
New York City Cabaret Law (1926-2017) 2006 nightlife legislation in New York City (2006-present) This page was last edited on 28 November 2022 ...
A bridge convention is an agreement about an artificial call or a set of related artificial calls. Calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge game convey information about the player's card holdings.
"The clubs that started the present vogue for dance clubs were the Cabaret Club in Heddon Street . . . . The Cabaret Club was the first club where members were expected to appear in evening clothes. . . . The Cabaret Club began a system of vouchers which friends of members could use to obtain admission to the club. . . . the question of the ...