Word: backgammoner
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...Marine struggle for the Solomon Islands. Only one thing puzzled me, and that is when the Japs broke into the clearing shouting "Banzai!" what did they mean ? Three marines were discussing the situation tonight after dinner. One suggested it meant "Screeno!" and another thought it meant "Backgammon!" and the last thought the Jap might possibly have meant "Where's the head?" Do you think you could settle this dispute...
...haired mistress Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, a luxurious eight-room maisonette, two high-powered automobiles, valet, maid, two Cuban houseboys, two French poodles, two Pekingese, and former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu, who is something of a lap dog himself. There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico...
...home their social life consists largely of tennis, bridge or backgammon with cinema people including such special friends as Tyrone Power & Annabella, the Fred MacMurrays, the Robert Taylors, the Joel McCreas. Coop eats enormously, smokes and drinks very little, gets into old clothes whenever possible, sleeps a great deal at home and naps constantly and at will on the lot. Stripped of his Hollywood appurtenances and fan-magazine mysticism, this national phenomenon is what he has been for years-an extremely good-natured Montana sportsman. He is daft about guns (his favorite: a .22 Hornet with a German telescope sight...
...Aldriches live in a penthouse, filled with Gertie's English accumulations, near Fifth Avenue in the Fifties. In former years Gertie was given to poker, backgammon, sewing, knitting, swimming, golf. Suddenly invited into a hole-in-one tournament in San Francisco in 1938, she kicked off her high-heeled slippers' and, stocking-footed, dropped her third shot 5 feet 6 inches from the cup. But today, unless they occur at after-theatre parties,' she has little time for diversions of any sort. When she is not at the theatre or taking her daily afternoon nap (which consists in piling right...
Though Clark Gable taught Vivien Leigh to play backgammon, and never won a game from her, they were not the best of friends. Director Fleming and Cinemactress Leigh differed over the interpretation of Scarlett, to which Fleming wanted to restore the "guts" he thought George Cukor had taken out of it. Vivien...