Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Mohammed Ah Ibrahim of Egypt is a spectacular figure in Europe's baccarat belt. He traces his ancestry back to Mehemet Ali Pasha, the "Terrible Turk" who conquered all Egypt in 1805, beat the British at Rosetta, decorated the streets of Cairo with the bluish severed heads of British soldiers. Prince Ibrahim disregards his cousin, Egypt's plump King Fuad I, nor is he interested in Egyptian politics. On an income of $150,000 a year, he confines his interests to champagne, roulette, a beautiful wife and numerous attractive friends. Also he takes a sparring partner with...
...little stirred last week when she gave birth to a girl-child of swarthy skin, jet black hair and beady brown eyes. Since the event was somewhat premature, the babe's father, Sir Tokuji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, was suddenly obliged to break off playing baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera, whence he rushed to his wife's bedside at St. Germain, near Paris, arriving just in time. Though naturally disappointed that the offspring was not male, Sir Tokuji at once ordered a splendrous and pompous Hindu christening...
...lost to Athanase Vagliano and his colleagues of the famed "Greek Syndicate" at Cannes or at Deauville, according to one's means. The Syndicate's game was and is baccarat. One season they lost three millions of francs to M. André Citroen, the "Henry Ford of France." In the novel Enemies of Women famed Spaniard Vincente Blasco Ibánez portrayed Athanase Vagliano, under another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano...
Among the charms of baccarat is the fact that by shouting "BANCO," anyone may become the banker of a table if he wins a stake. Usually the Syndicate is allowed to do all the "Banco"-shouting. Last year however an apparently rich Cal ifornian who said his name was "Mr. Day" wanted to play bank and was graciously allowed to oust the Syndicate. On the first coup they wagered a half-million francs against Banker Day at one end of the table and a million at the other. As he dealt the cards they stood to lose...
White folks at Monte Carlo were enviously agog, last week, at the luck of a tall, tawny young woman who won prodigiously at Baccarat, cashed in her chips, stuffed into the décolleté bosom of her gown a bulging bundle of 1,000 franc notes, and whirled out upon the dance floor in the arms of one Earl Leslie...