Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Staten Island, N. Y., one George Sheridan, of the Fire Prevention Bureau, mortgaged his home, bet $15,000 at 5 to 4 that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be elected Governor, banked...
...assistant manager; last year he was traded to Boston where he squabbled with onetime manager Jack Slattery, a native of the city, and supplanted him as manager. Because Bostonian baseball fans were annoyed at this and because Rogers Hornsby demanded $50.000 yearly, Judge Fuchs sold him. Hornsby likes to bet on horse races; he is imperious and impudent and in Chicago he will be neither captain nor manager but merely second baseman. Next winter again there may be hornswoggling for Hornsby...
National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...
Horton: You can just bet Tennessee is going to be in the Smith column...
...Tombes. La-de-da was the refrain of the song and its name was the Lard Song; in the course of it, Andy Tombes interrupted his singing to ask Will Rogers whether he had heard about the Scotchman who went to the whippet races. "Yes," said Rogers, "and he bet on the hare...