Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Displaying a dynamic knowledge of baccarat and the higher nuances of poker, the Crimson motor yachtsmen whiled their way to victory over the Mystic launches on the difficult mile course of the Charles yesterday...
Despite antigambling sentiment in English parishes, the former Prince of Wales and later Edward VIII liked to try his chance at baccarat or roulette in Europe's public casinos. Last week in Monte Carlo's swank International Sporting Club the Duke of Windsor laid his stakes as a modest punter at baccarat, never cried "Banco!" Other punters, with traditional gambler superstitition. rushed to stake on chances opposite to those picked by Edward, figuring "Lucky at love, unlucky at cards." They lost heavily to the bank, from which His Royal Highness won a total for the evening...
...Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo. The vacant chair beside the banker at the baccarat table in the sporting club at Monte Carlo is reserved for M. Gallard of Paris who, arriving late, proceeds to break the bank, taking home his winnings in a suitcase which he has brought for the purpose. What follows is an adventure story designed to fit Ronald Colman's elegant, off-hand romanticism. Will he go back to the tables? Hunchbacks, horseshoes and other lucky symbols strewn in his path by the backers of the sporting club fail to lure him. On the Blue...
...Playing baccarat at the big table in Deauville in 1929, the flashy little Jew whom everyone calls the Ford of France tossed a 10,000 franc (then $400) chip over his shoulder with the contemptuous remark "Be so kind, Madame, as to take this and stop breathing down the back of my neck...
Last week's fleet in their blue water race failed to encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the rudder, he was tossed into the cockpit by the tiller, broke two ribs. The Vamarie arrived with her radio set out of order, her navigating instruments broken by high seas. Slowest boats in last week's race were Robert P. Baruch's Zingara and Dainty, owned...