Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haven't bet any money on the game, and I haven't any ideas as to who will win. Even 14 I had I wouldn't publish them now; I'd wait until after I was safely home from the dance...
...Chicago an eminent bookmaker estimated from his chronicles that one million dollars would be bet on the World Series. Last week's odds favored Philadelphia's Athletics11...
...safe bet that whenever TIME pans a (Continued on p. 69) movie that movie is usually a darn good show. I can't conceive of anyone not liking Showboat and in my opinion Laura LaPlante did better work in that play than she has ever done before. Also she does not meet the description with which TIME credited her. That is the only picture I can think of now which got panned but I know there have been others...
...insisted on thrusting myself into all of them. He said I was spiritless, or temperamental; had no moral sense or was a prude. He said he wanted to marry the woman he really loved; and, that once rid of me, he would not marry anyone else on a bet...
Much has he traveled, many are the famed people he has met. In Milwaukee, where he has an agency, he headed the Lindbergh reception committee two years ago. The policemen there call him "C. C." Though not feeling well one day in Rome, he won a bet by getting an audience with the Pope on 24-hours' notice. He has hand-shaken Mussolini. He also tells how, slipping into an exclusive London night club, he and Mrs. Younggreen came face to face with Edward of Wales. "My wife," says Mr. Younggreen, "touched the Prince...