Word: baccarat
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...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...
...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...
...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...