Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closing, permit me to chuckle over the typical sportswomanship of Subscribess Whitsitt when she offers to "bet" that I have not "taken an air trip over to Paris more than 50 times." Clearly the good lady fancies she would be betting on a sure thing, so I shall not inform her how many times I have "taken an air trip over to Paris"-from London...
...first place, the letter was decidedly of a sarcastic tone; in the next place he dares to imply that Coolidge is lacking in moral courage and sportsmanship. I'd like to be near enough to Henderson to give him a poke in the nose! I'll bet Henderson has not taken an air-trip over to Paris more than fifty times(?). It gets under my skin to read a letter like Henderson has written and it riles me more to think you would print one like it. . . . Men like Coolidge and Lindbergh are not produced every...
...18th Century, when Yankee traders were enterprising and sporting, men wagered guineas along New Bedford and Newburyport waterfronts about fulfillment of time-delivery contracts at Calcutta of clipper-ship cargoes. Last week dark-skinned, poly-tongued Manhattan Coffee Exchange brokers-Greek, Christian, Jew alike-bet furiously on West Indian weather. Could Munson Liner Southern Cross get her 50,000 bags of Rio coffee a-dock at Hoboken before the last trading hour of March? The 50,000 bags were bought and sold. If a hurricane delayed them the bags might be near but not at Hoboken, and sellers of them...
...admitted that his shoulder stroke was the prettiest they had seen since Mr. Gould was at his best. After the match Soutar went to the dressing room and poked Etchebaster in the ribs. Mr. Joseph Widener went to the dressing room and gave him a two thousand dollar side-bet. Etchebaster (pronounced-bastaire) retained his calm...
...decorative panel, Parade. Ralph Pulitzer bought Octaroon. But the spectacular and atmospheric illuminations of East African voodooism were more original and hence more noticed. Painter Motley has seen the crowd of anxious dark faces at a fortune teller's door, waiting to be told what numbers to bet on in a gambling game. He paints the same crowd, their black skins grey in the light of a jungle moon, capering through the mad tendrils of a mango grove...