Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your lunch before coming to which joke ha, ha, I said we call it brekfast in the better circles which held him to no gain and I walked. And the braves are coming back soon, did you know it. Alma has a cousin which is on them, though I bet he don't know half the brave stuff she does. Have you ever here her talk to a cop. I said once Alma was your old man in the army or was he a pug and she said neither he was a drummer. Can you beat that? ha. ha heard...
...three dozen, three dozen and one, and five, and ten-four dozen soft-boiled (2½ min.) hen's eggs, in 45 minutes. At the 37th egg he choked, gasped out, "That egg was rotten." As the 48th mingled with its predecessors, he unfolded himself, arose, collected a bet ($10) and the price of his orgy, paid the pop-eyed waitress, stalked through the crowd and made for his rooms...
...fever for yarning. But even in a Birmingham brassworks he jotted notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains. Once he had to climb up through a 120-foot chimney on a bet and fight a man when he came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written...
...never will I frankly bet...
...Parliament assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...