Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward of Wales, out of no less than $7,000,000. To Department of Justice sleuths it seemed credible that H. R. H. was sold stock at Le Touquet in a nonextant oil well. Le Touquet croupiers remembered last week that Mr. Factor and H. R. H. have played baccarat at the same table- which proves nothing. In Chicago last week Mr. Factor got away from his luxurious apartment just before the Secret Service men arrived. But they nabbed in Philadelphia an Englishman called Harry Geen, said to be Factor's swindling lieutenant...
Died. Sir Edward Clarke, 90, "Grand Old Man" of the British Bar, onetime (1886-92) Solicitor General, barrister in the baccarat cheating case in which Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, figured (TIME, March 9) and the trial of Dr. Jameson who led "Jameson's Raid" into the Transvaal in 1895; in London. In the London Times appeared his obituary, written by himself, describing his "very busy and very happy life" and revealing that his income for 17 years averaged...
...about everything, but he is allowed to have one final fling. Appropriately last week this fling was made in a gambling house, the famed Palais de la Méditerranée built at Nice by Frank Jay Gould of Paris and New York, dedicated to Opera, Art and Baccarat. Because the restaurant of the Palais is one of the best in Europe it was chosen as the scene of a gala banquet to M. Doumergue (no mean gourmet) tendered by the City of Nice and the Prefecture Council of Alpes-Maritimes...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, and to him alone, H. R. H. expounded his private reasons, his theory of why royal baccarat is not gambling...
...Alas!" lamented H. R. H. in conclusion, "Those who gamble will gamble at anything. ... I have a horror of gambling." Upon this firm, High Church foundation the present Edward of Wales and Prince George played baccarat last week without stirring the faintest ripple of British criticism. Edward VII, by his adroit, indomitable stand, made his successors safe even from the Low Church, not to mention the worm-high Nonconformists...