Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dien ("I Serve") is the motto of the Prince of Wales. Last week, between the hours of 3:30 a. m. and dawn, H. R. H. served all comers to the Chilean Casino at Vina del Mar as dealer for the "big" baccarat bank...
Chilean reporters who had told their newspapers that H. R. H. went home and to bed "at about 4 a. m. without playing baccarat." felt foolish when the facts came out. Seasoned baccarat players harked back to 1890 when almost the whole English press raged at the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) for baccaratting, when German papers headlined sarcastically "Ich Deal," when the Archbishop of Canterbury had to step in for the honor of the Throne...
...present Edward of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) has very seldom touched baccarat cards or chips, though often he has had his equerry play for him. Play at Vina del Mar is not high. For only 10,000 pesos ($1,200). H. R. H. bought the "bank," i. e. the right to hold and deal cards to the players who would all win to him or lose to him as Fate decreed (there is no "skill," or almost none, in baccarat...
Unlike his grandsire Edward VII, Edward of Wales does not carry about his own chips and baccarat paraphernalia in his luggage, nor does he insist on playing in homes where he is a guest. The 1890 affair revealed that Queen Victoria's eldest son had these habits when it brought the then Prince of Wales into court to testify against a British officer who had been caught cheating H. R. H. by three male witnesses and two females...
...largest bar in the world"; at Chile's famed seaside resort Vina del Mar,* the mayor of the town cried: "It was due to the personal interest and initiative of President Carlos Ibanez himself that Congress passed the special law enabling us to have games of roulette and baccarat." Observers commented on the fact that dictators like President Ibanez. Primo de Rivera and Prime Minister Mussolini nearly always encourage roulette, while republican governments outlaw...