Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced Tipster Toole is sponsored by the R. B. Clothing Co., brings as many as 1,500 people to an R. B. store when he makes a personal appearance. Although he works for a $75 weekly salary, he appeals to his horse-betting listeners to win him bonuses, declares on the air that he makes no money at the tracks, that a bet placed by Willie Winn poisons the horse. After he began broadcasting for R. B. last June, his sponsor promised him a 1938 Buick coach if in two weeks he could bring 500 new accounts into the store...
...afternoon three weeks ago, James Smith Ferebee breezed into the club's locker room, announced that he had just played 90 holes. "Could have gone 144," he added. This irked fat Fred Tuerk, who offered to bet him $2 that he couldn...
Died. Jack Judge, 60, onetime fishmonger and vaudeville trouper, author of It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, best-known marching song of the World War; of meningitis; in Birmingham, England. On New Year's Day 1912, Judge bet a friend he could write a song before nightfall, sing it successfully and publicly that evening. He won with Tipperary...
...Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian exile's hard-luck tales, for example, prompt him to bet on Lenin, short-sell Russian bonds at a huge profit...
Like House of All Nations, The World Is Mine is a novel with an unpredictable future. Safest bet is that a few readers will enjoy its spotty but brilliant literary coloring, while the rest get the effect of a faulty spectrum that whirls out of a bad shade...