Culbertson
Speech parts
1. Culbertson - Noun
2. Culbertson - Proper noun
Meaning
United States authority on contract bridge whose books helped to popularize the game (1891-1955)
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Charles Henry Goren, Ely Culbertson, Goren's Hoyle Encyclopedia of Games, 1961, p. 210 500 is a social card game and was highly popular in the United States until around 1920 when first Auction bridge and then Contract Bridge drove it from favour.
Bridge" – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s.
Culbertson, Goren, and Harold Vanderbilt were the three people named when The Bridge World inaugurated a bridge "hall of fame" in 1964 and they were made founding members of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.
He is also survived by his wife, Susan; his daughter, Jennifer, of Denver; Chris' wife, Tricia, and the couple's three children; and sister Joan Culbertson, of Farmington, Conn.
He'll be playing some Sanborn, Culbertson, Lingdon, Dulfer, and even some of his original songs.
Culbertson says seeing the total loan size increase is distressing.