Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their back to nature. Worse, they called in the police, who, dulled to aesthetic beauty, told the younger generation to swim three miles away, out of sight of the naked eye and where the eye could not sight them naked. Then these limbs of the law returned to their baccarat game...
...Cuban National Lottery will be made bigger, better under a proposed law, is expected to net the Cuban treasury a profit of $10,000,000 next year. At the National Casino in Marianao, Havana, roulette (with two zeroes), Baccarat, Faro, Craps and almost every other gambling game known to man are played, are legal for both sexes. But women are not allowed to attend the better burlesque shows in Havana...
...vanished from the casinos. There was chemin de jer and boule for small punters, but serious gamesters missed the Greeks, whose standing challenge is that they are good for any bet up to 50,000,000 francs ($1,950,000). Also the casino proprietors missed the steady income from baccarat "kitties." Who was the man to replace the Greeks...
...Englishman, no relative of the potent thread-spinning house of Coats. Most experienced gambler next to the Greeks, he had just won 1,000,000 francs from the Syndicate. He would take over the bank, hold it all summer if need be "to break the Greek Syndicate and put baccarat in the hands of sportsmen who play for the love of the game." "Sportsmen," he gallantly declared, "do not necessarily play for profit...
Then ensued what observers described as "an orgy of baccarat." Itinerant gamblers for miles around, learning that Dashing Jack was at the "shoe," flocked to and swamped Frank Jay Gould's place. They came in morning coats, they came in knickers, some came in trunks, bathing suits, beach robes. One deplorable incident during the rush was the unwitting exclusion of Prince Habib Lotfallah who appeared attired in pyjamas after the management, of necessity, had turned away all patrons in beach costume...