Word: backgammon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a sense of humor befitting his heavy frame, Herbert Fleishhacker is today one of those unusual personalities who cause some travelers to describe San Francisco as the most cosmopolitan city in the U. S. His close cronies find amusement at his joy in a wager at golf, bridge, backgammon, dominoes, his even deeper desire to win at all of them. They have long since become accustomed to his practical jokes, are not surprised when he hands out explosive cigars, shaves during business conferences, becomes irrepressibly boisterous. And shrewd Mr. Fleishhacker now finds his name firmly imbedded in local projects...
...holds down a good desk in the family textile firm of Galey & Lord. One of nine children, Oz Lord says he thought of Politics while taking a hot shower last spring. Other Lord ideas have been a foot ball game invented at the age of 12 (successful) and a backgammon dice duplicator (unsuccessful...
...became rutted at about 700,000 shares per day, the floor clerks in desperation devised a nameless game which has almost all the elements of real trading. For a long time the idle floor members ignored the game, continuing to spend the daily five-hour Stock Exchange session at backgammon or horseplay. After the turn of the year, the members suddenly took up the clerks' game, and by last week there were often more brokers playing than could be found at the U. S. Steel post. The game...
...past two months. Astonished visitors saw sights and heard sounds that would shake the faith of the blackest capitalist. Specialists dozed through raucous japery and ear-splitting versions of such old Floor favorites as "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" or "The Wearing of the Green." Oldsters yawned over backgammon, clerks wrestled and punched each other...
While playing backgammon in the garden of her villa at Juan-les-Pins, France, Maxine Elliott, oldtime actress-beauty, was nipped on the ankle by her pet monkey, Kiki. Furious, Queen Elliott had Jester Kiki's teeth pulled out. Next day Queen Elliott, appeased, took gory-gummed Kiki for a walk...