Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was batting close to .414 for Washington. Sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, sharp-eyed, amiable, fast, lazy, and a tireless autographer of balls, fond of track athletics and very poor at them, Goslin has proved himself for a long time a fine batter. Last spring he bet "Memphis Bill" Terry, Giant first baseman, $5 he could beat him sprinting, lost his five. A little later, with no money up, he tried to throw the discus, strained his arm. Unable to win games without...
...drama, an old one, was arranged so that the end was happy. It was an unfortunate vehicle for the Vitaphone; the lines were terrible, making the audience laugh in tense moments. The girl had a throaty voice. Only Lionel Barrymore sounded convincing. He is the Vitaphone's best bet at the present stage of development. Women's voices are the most annoying problem; they either take on a lisp, or else they sound husky...
...subscriber for your periodical before you had printed a copy of it, hence I presume to ask you to decide a bet as to the number of prominent Democrats whose pictures have appeared on the outside covers of your magazine since you began its publication...
...them in empty stores. In Chicago there was no cash on hand. When it seemed sure that everything was over, one F. F. Gunn, Chicago sportsman, paid off the debts, took charge of the race. His son Harry was in the race and Gunn is said to have bet $75,000 that Harry would finish. He hired a sleeping bus and two trainers for Harry and followed the boy in his Pierce Arrow roadster. To Pyle was left the job of paying the prize-money. "Each and every one of you will get your cash, boys-Cold Cash -that...
...Staunton, Va., six cops made a bet with six reverend preachers. Police against preachers would play volleyball. If the police won, the preachermen would go to jail for an hour. If the preachers won, the cops would go to church the next Sunday and stay for the sermon. ... On Wednesday the games were played. Next Sunday in the front pew of the Episcopal church sat the police force. "God" cried Volleyman-Preacherman J. Lewis Gibbs in the pulpit "is on the side that hits the hardest volleyball...