1.   Corinne, always in charge, would orchestrate midday tennis games and afternoon bridge games.

2.   A passenger at my dinner table hunted in vain for a bridge game.

3.   Bridge games.

4.   But especially during the early Stonington years, their domestic routine had a dull sameness, as they wrote to Lurie about dinner parties and bridge games.

5.   But her bridge games faded away as friends died, and without her realizing it, her life became more constricted.

6.   Get up a weekly bridge game.

7.   How many other lawyers can boast of spending weeknights as a high school student at the home of his chemistry teacher perfecting his bridge game?

8.   Imagine what would happen if your mom invited a motorcycle gang to her bridge game.

9.   Like most young couples, the Doles lived on a tight budget and entertainment mostly consisted of bridge games or dances at the local veterans halls.

10.   Monday afternoons are reserved for a bridge game with three friends and neighbors, all widows.