rummy

A friendship blossoms thanks to a shared affection for gin rummy, but Jones slowly reveals Fish’s tenderness, the possibility of romance spreading out in front of him.

“Now, how about a game of gin rummy?”

Without much warning, these adults will suddenly start speaking in a cartoonish voice: Eric turns rummy as a mannered Brit named Charles, while Rachel murmurs as “Moopie-Moopie.”

During tough negotiations over a child care bill with Bob Packwood of Oregon, he challenged her to a game of gin rummy.

“After that, we’ll play board games. We love to play board games — dominoes, backgammon, gin rummy.”