Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marino's casino, temporarily quartered in the Kursaal, the republic's one concert hall. There was a quiet champagne party for 300 local officials and well-heeled visitors. Three dozen croupiers (imported from Italy) smoothly took charge of the casino's five roulette and two baccarat tables...
...swank Colonia Nápoles one evening last week, a string of expensive cars were parked outside Señora Rosa Rodriguez' mansion. Inside, a score of well-heeled, guests were gathered around card tables, sipping drinks and wagering 100-peso notes at canasta, poker and baccarat...
...Argentina's hottest summer in 16 years; 2) currency difficulties that kept most Argentines away from Uruguay's resorts; 3) plenty of inflated pesos. Some of the pesos were flung away by newly rich industrialists plunging at punto y banco, a South American version of baccarat. But most of the money came from the pockets of vacationing descamisados, who preferred roulette. The casino's main hall looked like Macy's basement as players pushed and shoved to bet at the 71 roulette tables. Most of them ignored the more conservative red-and-black, put one-peso...
Chief Croupier Manuel López Iglesias, who had seen estancias lost on the turn of a baccarat card in the old days, took a philosophical view of his new clientele. "The casino has been really democratized," he said. "People with all kinds of income now come to the casino. They may lose a little, they may win a little. What is important is that it is fun for them...
...Cercle des Etrangers à Monaco (Sea Bathing and Foreigners' Club of Monaco), which runs the Casino, got the news at a meeting in the Casino's ornate Salle Ganne, a floor below the gaming rooms. While gamblers tried their hand upstairs at roulette, baccarat, and trente et quarante, 70-year-old Chairman Alfred Delpierre explained how the odds had worked against the house...