Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what I please and enjoy it thoroughly. There are certain days that I like to recall: the day that I dined with my favorite monarch, the late King Edward VII . . . the day I was banished to New York from Washington by my father, Theodore Roosevelt, because I had bet on the horse races . . . the day I wore red riding breeches when presented to the Emperor of Korea (it was on this trip to the Orient that my romance with Nicholas Longworth ripened) . . . the day of our wedding at the White House when Congress adjourned without giving a reason, for fear...
...Yessenin (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), I too determined to kill myself-or so my friends said last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...
...pickled Harvard lad, I'll bet...
Health is a matter of publication and education and today I look on it as newspaperdom's best bet...
...Padre is a French peasant-priest. He mingles with the people, drinks with the soldiers, says: "Hell, yes, you bet your sweet life." An uncouth fellow, given to kissing barmaids in saloons, he is, nevertheless, established as a sterling upright character, for he frowns blackly upon kissing in the salon. When his good-fellowship embroils him in a Parisian night club scandal and the Bishop is about to punish him, the Cardinal pops out from behind the curtain, announces that the padre has a heart of gold. Leo Carillo does the padre, but the real hero is Poilu, high-spirited...