Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year put boats over 40 ft., instead of over 53 ft., in Class A. Yacht-Designer Olin Stephens' famed 52-ft. Dorade, winner of Class B in the last Bermuda race, last week finished fifth in Class A. Class B prize went to Russell A. Alger's Baccarat...
While the late Alexandre Stavisky was pawning fake royal emeralds and cheating at baccarat in 1929, French politicians were having their nightmares about the Hanau Case. Last week French Justice, nearly paralyzed by the Stavisky Case, succeeded at least in warming over the Hanau Case...
...were taking him by train to Paris. In the first instance the agents went to sleep, drugged. In the second their prisoner slipped off his handcuffs by means best known to himself and ran. Only last winter, Chevalier d'Industrie Stavisky won a 2,000,000-franc baccarat duel at Cannes with Nicholas Zographos-and afterward marked cards were found in the baccarat shoe. Recklessly the Opposition Press in Paris hurled charges at Premier Chautemps that the Founder-Swindler had had a card as an inspector in the French Secret Service, that this alone had stopped French detectives from...
...Chef de Protocole was it was solemnly announced that he had been "delayed by illness." When the chuckling Communists let him go at last, he rushed to the marble banquet hall red-faced and spluttering. Dealing the 200 place cards with the speed and accuracy of a croupier at baccarat, Chef de Protocole Yeregui soon had the fuming, famished statesmen safely seated...
...French estate at Maisons-Laffitte (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The syndicate was behind on gambling taxes due the state one day last week, but insisted that they would open the Palais for the season next evening. Just after noon flames burst from the restaurant, the theatre, the baccarat room and swept in a crackling torrent through the whole Palais...