Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feared. Such a deplorable recrudescence of superstition in our supposedly enlightened America is nursed by many things--home environment, the natural hostility of those in economic security toward any possible disruptive force--but primarily, as with every other superstition, this one is based on ignorance. It is a safe bet that neither Mr. Taylor nor those possessing his views are acquainted with Mr. Hicks or with the tenets of Communism...
...Park, depicting the tribulations of the proletariat when it deserts New York's teeming streets for its teeming parks. A man who enjoys such simple proletarian pleasures is former Garment-Cutter David Dubinsky, president of I.L.G.W.U. Unlike many labor leaders, he would rather ride on a bicycle than bet on a bicycle race. Palm Sunday, stocky little President Dubinsky, attired in a leather windbreaker, was pedaling through New York's Central Park on the elegant English bicycle given him last year by his Lingerie Workers local. There Labor Leader Dubinsky chanced to meet his ubiquitous old friend, Labor...
Thrifty Joseph Stalin belatedly bet another blue chip on the Spanish Loyalists last week in the form of ten splendid Soviet warplanes. Tons of other Soviet war paraphernalia have reached the Leftists in the past month via France. Amid wild cheering in recently bombed Barcelona, Soviet war birds in mass formation darkened the sky and last week the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory...
...crowd after the finish, could not lead her horse in as the winner's owner usually does. When she finally reached Battleship's stable, she patted his neck with mixed emotions. Said she: "I am glad I won the Grand National. I didn't have a bet on the race...
...would be willing to bet my head against the hole in a doughnut that it is not transferred...