Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steve and his fellow rogue murmured apart, spoke of selling her to a man named Felipe. They cut off her hair, threatened to cut off a scarred finger and send it to her mother. "I prayed constantly and talked to them of God. I'll bet they were tired of hearing my preaching. . . ." Then the cabin, somewhere beyond Mexicali, where they left her alone for an unguarded hour; she sawed through her rope on a tin can, wandered all night over cactus and mesquite ... At last the road to Douglas ... a Friend . . . safety . . . escape...
...Busch] is positively fascinating. The Superman Himself is in our midst! I'll bet he wouldn't even be afraid of a lion in the zoo, or could stand up real bravely and throw stones at a trapped weasel...
...tilted cigar in one corner of his mouth, Senator Reed relishingly continued the grill. He spent much time seeking for traces of Anti-Saloon League complicity, but Mr. Pinchot said that there was no use, since the League had thown him over and followed Senator Pepper as the better bet," although Pinchot was the bone-dry candidate. Senator Reed observed: "They could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were away...
...bet there's no such item on Vare's expense," he remarked. Pinchot witnesses testified that the Pepper committee assigned an average of 25 "watchers"* and the Vare committee an average of 10 "watchers" to each election district, paying them $10 each, the aggregate outlay for that purpose alone calculated at half a million dollars. It was also charged that there had been "juggling" in the counting of ballots in certain districts...
...myth. What horse was leading? It might be Sir Abe Bailey's Lex, an entry which Lady Astor gave the miners in South Wales as a tip to win. It might be Colorado,* the favorite on which a total of some $10,000,000 had been bet because he had recently beaten Coronach, the winter favorite, by five lengths. It might have been Lancegaye. It might be Swift and Sure. It might be Apple Sammy...