Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Yale game also shows a radical change in the policy which the University has always followed in the crucial series. It is customary to send the weaker pitcher in when the first game is on the New Haven diamond, and yet Spalding is obviously Coach Mahan's best bet for a win. The probable reason for this change in the usual procedure is that Pond is slated to start the game for Yale instead of the first string pitcher, Holibird, and Coach Mahan will take advantage of the opportunity by concentrating his force for the initial contest...
Come Diogenes! You may now Gillette away that beard you were wearing on a bet, for a man has been found, who, whether honest or not, is at least modest. A congressman has returned from Europe, but yet he does not know all about it, and has no solutions for the problems. Here is a man who is running almost as much risk as Victor Berger, for he is about as far away from the usual congressional character...
...among the dunes for their championship. In their own counties, they were most of them little champions, but among them there was easy-going young Joyce Wethered, who, last year (as in 1922), kept every one of them from being a big champion. Had a Scotchman been inclined to bet against Miss Wethered this year, he would probably have chosen either braw Cecil Leitch, unbeatable just before and just after the War (1914, '20, '21), or Glenna Collett, of Providence, R. I., a girl quieter than most of her countrymen, who had turned up with the Canadian...
Then up jumped Charles Bertrand, ardent Nationalist. He roared: "Have we reached the point when we must choose between bankruptcy and M. Caillaux? Bankruptcy would be bet ter, for the reinstatement of M. Caillaux shows moral bankruptcy, which is infinitely the worse...
...bet you five quid to a "bawber that David Kirkwood didn't shout, "Wot abaht the Red letter?" (wte your issue of Mar 16, Page 8), when he interrupted the monocled son of Brummagem Joe in Parliament. What he probably said was: "What about...