Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James McDonough, Boston University freshman, put kissing on a sprint basis yesterday by kissing fifteen girls in as many minutes. When he was asked if he had also done his kissing on a bet, he was reported to have replied, "No, I'm thinking of taking the pennant from the Yankees this year, and I had to chalk up a few scratch singles...
...firm at 8-1, but England's shillings rained down on H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli, which last year lost by a mere neck to Battleship. By race time the odds on Royal Danieli had been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire's Workman, last year's tired third. Workman stood at 100-8, just a shade better liked than Royal Mail, 100-7, the only former winner in the field. A tempting long shot was Capt...
...Hyde with a mighty roar. Merseysiders went wild. An Irish priest shouted encouragement in Gaelic. For Workman was Irish-bred by a Cork pubkeeper, Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then on it was nip and tuck between the green...
Celebrating the second day of spring, DeWitt Fischman '39 won a ten dollar bet by walking to Wellesley in less than three hours and fifteen minutes...
...sale in April, the Champion was last week displayed to Manhattan dealers. President Hoffman, once called the "greatest salesman on the Pacific Coast," hopes to sell 50,000 in 1939. To break even he will have to sell 25,000. He and Chairman Vance have bet four years work and $4,500,000 they...