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  • I called the album "The Spade" through a process of elimination when wanting a playing-card theme on the record.

    Jon Chattman: Butch Walker: Prepare to be "Butch Slapped" With Less Carbon Emissions Jon Chattman 2011

  • Brooke, with his curved, playing-card profile, is restless, questing and manically contradictory: Laskey, in contrast, is still, cautious and reassuringly consistent.

    I Am the Wind | Michael Billington 2011

  • GREENBELT CRAFTS AND MAGIC SHOW, for all ages, create playing-card mini-notebooks and watch a performance by Joe Romano. 1-4 p.m.,

    Pr. George's calendar, Sept. 30-Oct. 7, 2010 Post 2010

  • I present to you the museum-compatible, slim alternative to cardboard and playing-card tablets: Weaving tablets made of parchment.

    Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • I present to you the museum-compatible, slim alternative to cardboard and playing-card tablets: Weaving tablets made of parchment.

    The Alternative to Playing Cards a stitch in time 2009

  • Yamauchi is the man credited with transforming Nintendo from playing-card company to video game giant.

    How Billionaire Sports Owners Made Their Fortunes 2009

  • Although the origin of the phrase went unrecorded, it almost certainly sprang from their familiarity with two other playing-card epithets.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Analysts said that may be an expression of caution typical of the company, founded in 1889 as a playing-card maker.

    Wii Did It: Nintendo's Profit 2008

  • It flies out bent in the middle like a playing-card, and I'm laying on the horn with the points of both elbows, my right arm doing its last job.

    Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008

  • Although the origin of the phrase went unrecorded, it almost certainly sprang from their familiarity with two other playing-card epithets.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

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