Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remains that the two American Secretaries, Mellon and Hughes, did have quiet little private meetings with Ramsay MacDonald, with Doumergue, with Herriot, with Millerand, with Poincaré, with Theunis, with Paul Hymans, with Chancellor Marx and other men who rule the destinies of Europe. And it is a safe bet for any intelligent American that Messrs. Hughes and Mellon did not go to Europe just to exchange small talk with the notables of the world...
They buried Jimmy Lefkowitz yesterday, and all Pearl street was in mourning. When the hold-up men entered the place, each flourishing two guns, the telephone operator bravely remained at her post, making sure that all the guests had bet. aroused...
...selling, including advertising, which occupies many people today is a clear waste which gets the consumer nothing. He calculates that in the U. S. there are 3,552,952 people who are paid, fed, clothed, solely for the purpose of persuading people that one product is bet ter than another. Let's abolish them, he says, or rather put them to producing something and we'll all be much better off. Let's abolish the waste and guarantee every man who is willing to work a decent living, and then...
...Then I'll bet 40 francs on Sir Galahad...
...each of these games, the H. A. A. lost its bet with the insurance company. The only time that there seemed any chance of collecting was on the day of the Indiana game, October 8, 1921. The clouds had been threatening all day, but the rain held off until exactly five minutes after 4 o'clock, when it came down in a sudden deluge at the rate of about one-twentieth of an inch a minute. The insurance company, however, stuck to the letter of the policy and withheld...