Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilbur--"Yes, Yes, Yvette"--8.10 o'clock--Being the little sister of "No, No, Nannette." About a gentleman who bet he could tell the truth. And what it gets...
...those locks of hair?" he said. "Well, it is a long story but I can tell it in a few words. I bet a fellow-Westminster College student $100 that I could take 50 girls buggy-riding on 50 successive days without taking the same girl twice, and get a lock of hair from each. I not only won the bet, but found the quest for locks such a pleasant one that I did not stop until I had the hundred...
...bet less than the pot on four aces...
Last week the Prince of Wales visited a hospital at Brighton, England, stopped to chat with a blind veteran. "Your Highness might help a fellow," said the blind one, "by letting him in on the best bet in the Grand National tomorrow." His Highness smiled, hesitated, suggested Lord Stalbridge's entry, Thrown In, running at odds 100-1 against...
...Tunbridge Wells, England, one A. G. Luck last August bet Lloyd's (famed insurers) $150 against $5,000 that his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Dumbreck, would have "two or more children early in 1927." Having found few twins or triplets in the Luck and Dumbreck family trees, Lloyd's waited confidently. Last week Mrs. Dumbreck gave birth to twins; Lucky Luck collected $55000. Many an-other wife urged her husband to bet on her; pius preachermen flayed sinners who gambled on motherhood...