Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ready to say what we ought to do. I am a newcomer in the Senate and it would do no good for me to say too much. When I have something to say, I bet those fellows will hear me. I will hit hard when the time comes for hard hitting. It was a great speech Lloyd George made...
Clad in full army, kit weighing about 90 pounds, two British M. P.'s will walk from Banbury to Oxford, 23 miles, to decide a bet...
...Gough Street?a party at the Thrales'?Mrs. Thrale's decision to marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among the actors are all the Johnsonian company, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Burke, Goldsmith, Boswell, Peg Woffington, down to Mr. Levett and even Bet Flint. An experiment comprising much diverting and edifying matter worthy the studious attention of all Johnsonians...
...Betting on the Wrong Test. Sweepstakes in horse racing, football and other sports have become so huge an interest in Great Britain that the Government has considered taxing all bets, and the Church of England's Men's Society, meeting in London, considered what might be done to stop the gambling evil. One cleric told the Society that some men in his parish bet on whether the vicar would preach on a text from the Old or the New Testament. No one thought of betting on the dark horse. They found the vicar preaching on the text Revision...
...Marquis. About three years later, at the Derby of 1867, Hastings' horse was favorite. Chaplin's horse, Hermit, broke a blood vessel about a month before the race and went to the stake at odds of: 100 to 1. Just before the race Chaplin took every bet that was, offered. The race was run in a snow-storm and Hermit won, netting his master upwards of $500,000. Hastings lost supposedly $350,000, was ruined and committed suicide. When Chaplin was made Viscount in 1916, his arms consisted partly of a "chest-nut-colored race horse...