Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still withholding formal acknowledgment of his candidacy, Governor Landon continued last week to play his role of conscientious public servant modestly awaiting a call to higher service. But Wall Street betting commissioners would offer no more than even money against his nomination. Press picture services were ready to bet 1,000 to 1 on the Governor's yearnings when they were furnished with a series of photographs depicting Alf M. Landon at six months in long skirts; Alf M. Landon going on 3 years in sailor straw and enormous kilts; Alf M. Landon at 4 in an embroidered collar...
...TIME. Nov. 25: "In Spring Valley, Ill., when Prisoners James Gardini and Felix Mayeski asked Mayor-Judge Tonelli for mercy on the grounds that they could have escaped from the jail had they chosen, the Mayor bet them their freedom they could not escape...
...they didn't like me. I'm going to look for my dog. I think I know where he is. If he isn't, well, I don't know what I'll do, but this isn't all washed up yet, bet your boots on that...
...Minute" is a delightful farce starring Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams. Roger undertakes to spend $1,000 a minute for twelve hours, to settle a bet between two plutocrats. A yacht, a race horse, a Duesenberg, a mastiff, an elephant, a Trans-continental airplane, a $30,000 fur coat, and sundry other trivial bring the story to the point where Roger has to have $50,000 to buy a tube of radium (a gift to a hospital) and has a capital of only...
...Kansas City, Mo., a score of nightclubs introduced a "Mouse in the Cage" gambling game. Patrons bet on one of six colors painted above six holes around the sides of a mouse cage. The live mouse is released from a tin can in the centre of the cage, usually picks the red hole (even money), then blue (8 to 1), last of all gold...