Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge ear and-presto!-Mr. Mitchell found himself Solicitor-General of the U. S. Such a good impression did he make as the Government's advocate before the U. S. Supreme Court that the Justices broadly hinted to President Hoover that he would be overlooking a good bet if he did not utilize the Mitchell legal talents in a top-notch of his Cabinet...
Signor Donnarumma looked reproaches at Signora Donnarumma. The young wife could guess her husband's thoughts, for she knew that he had boasted in the village, "I shall have a son!" He had even bet on it. Now he would be laughed at, and perhaps he would hate her for making the villagers laugh...
Died. John Walters, 58, of Brooklyn, N. Y., most famed of U. S. racetrack bet brokers ("bookies"), onetime protege of the late sportsman William Collins Whitney; of heart disease; in Paris. Commissioner Walters handled millions with only oral promises, no receipts...
Finished that book? Pass it over. Lemme see what you wrote this time. You're a funny one, Joe. You just write in the right hand columns. You been missing hundreds of pages since your Freshman year. Me? Why, I bet I write twice as much in margins on left hand pages. I don't know why. I eat and bat righty...
...with British masses who bet heavily on many an Aga Khan horse...