Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time ago, the Ladies Home Journal published a series of articles by the White House housekeeper, telling me everything but what I really wanted to know-and that was just where the President's electric horse did its galloping, and other such trivialities. George Horace Lorimer overlooked a bet there...
Recently I made a bet with a friend of mine that TIME had made the greatest advertising progress of any magazine in the U. S. during the past year...
Subscriber Mason wins, if he shrewdly bet on pages, not lines of advertising. TIME'S increase in lineage for 1928 was a little better than 20%, in number of pages a larger increase than any other U. S. magazine. In number of lines, Colliers, having a larger page, beat TIME by a small margin. During January and February of 1929, TIME'S lineage increased about 75% over...
...Harvard men.--Hot dog! Don't they have simply wonderful football teams there! I often go to the Harvard-Yale game, and I cheer for Harvard, too. I've always wanted to run down onto the field and carry the pigskin through that line of Blue, myself. I'll bet I could shake off those tacklers...
...Herbert, stocky, rumpled, good-mixing president of Anglo & London Paris National Bank. A poker-player, a crap-shooter is Herbert; he plays also a talkative game of mediocre and expensive bridge. He unsuccessfully backed local horseracing and doodlebug enterprises. He once raised 600 species of orchids on a bet. The Fleishhackers have wide interests in oil, rails, utilities, industrials...