Name/Title
Backgammon to LoseDescription
Humorous treatments of backgammon often adopt the stance of exhausted friends and family crying out “enough already” and calling for an end to backgammon’s faddish omnipresence. American humorist Corey Ford surveys the wreckage: “Everybody has gone Backgammon-berserk. Hostesses meet trains nowadays with sets in their hands; black-and red boards flap open at every lapse in the conversation; the click of markers and the cadaverous rattle of dice pursue the hounded guests even in their sleep. Experts are doubling and redoubling their trusting partners out of small fortunes, gentlemen are separating their wives from their very cigarette money, and the Long island roads these nights are filled with a long line of stripped and penniless dowagers trudging back to town in barrels.”Publication Details
Periodical
Vanity FairPeriodical Type
MagazineTime Period
Modern BackgammonOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
SequenceOther Number
1931_03
