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“Revenge is a dish best served cold”

In 1922 a group of gentlemen met in Louisville, Kentucky to play poker, gossip, trade business stories, and enjoy a few convivial hours of cards in each other’s company. It is to be assumed that Bourbon flowed liberally and that cigars were puffed as the afternoon stretched into evening and evening into night. As the game wound up, one of the gentlemen,…