Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the course had achieved its effect by the time the last round started. Gene Sarazen had offered to bet $500 that no one would break 288 (even fours and par). Snead had predicted that he would beat 292 and finish at least second...
Chico Marx runs an ice cream wagon at a racetrack. When he spies Groucho placing a bet on Sun-Up, he intercedes, sells the visitor a tip. When Groucho fails to understand the tip. Chico produces a code book from the ice cream wagon, sells Groucho the code book. When Groucho fails to understand the code book, Chico sells him a master code book. By the time the transaction ends, Groucho has a whole library of code books. Chico has Groucho's money, which he bets...
Declared Novelist Kathleen Norris, arriving from Europe where she had reported George VI's coronation for the North American Newspaper Alliance: ''I predict that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will break up in less than two years. I base my bet on the letters, some 300 of them a day, that I have been receiving from women everywhere during the last eight years. . . . What Mrs. Simpson and the Duke did is not the sort of thing we would stand for in the White House. No American President has ever put to the people the question...
...Lord Astor's Cash Book or the French colt Le Ksar. Still confident was the round, brown Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems, that this year his one entry would outrun the pack to give him three Derby victories in a row. Queen Elizabeth, however, bet ?1 on Mid-Day Sun, quoted at 100-to-7. Mid-Day Sun's best previous performance had been to place third at Newmarket this year in the Two Thousand Guineas race, which Le Ksar...
...Queen's bet on this comparative outsider had been based on more than a hunch. She had sentimentally hoped that victory would go to a woman owner for the first time in Derby history.* Mid-Day Sun is one of the two horses in the Hampshire stables of Mrs. Lettice Mary Talbot Miller, a 28-year-old brunette who inherited a $2,500,000 silk fortune from her great-uncle. About the least-known of all British racing owners, she seldom frequents race tracks, never bets a shilling. Mid-Day Sun, bought two years ago with Mrs. Miller...