Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crash. At Point Barrow the bodies were placed in the tiny Mission Hospital. Then Sergeant Morgan went to his radio station to tell the world about the end of an Arctic holiday of which Will Rogers had written: "We are sure having a great time. . . . You know who I bet would like to be on this trip? Mr. Roosevelt...
Died. Sir James Buchanan, Baron Woolavington, 85, longtime turfman, wealthy distiller (Buchanan whiskey); after long illness; in Petworth, England. Twice a Derby winner (1922-26), he never bet on a horse...
...temerity in trimming the elder Morgan in a stock deal, John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was "exiled'' from Wall Street about 1900. One year later oil gushed in Texas and Gates plunged heavily in a struggling little business known as Texas Co. To sell its oil abroad, Texaco bought up a fleet of tankers. One of the tankers was captained by a blond, husky stripling of 22 named T. Rieber. Captain T. Rieber would not even commit himself as to his birthplace, which was in Sweden, or his first name, which was Torkild. This close-mouthed independence...
...weeks of the season-should therefore this year bring the highest prices since Depression. Thumbing through the catalogs of Fasig-Tipton Co., which conducts the auctions, horse buyers last week had their choice of 550 yearlings. Colonel Edward Riley Bradley with nearly 50 for sale offered, as usual, to bet even money against anyone who thought he could pick a yearling at the auctions which would win a race the following year...
...moted light. The faces he painted expose their surfaces of flesh like faces seen in life, but they also expose their motivations, wills, characters. Anyone could decide, on the evidence of Rembrandt's pictures of this period, whether he would have lent his sitters money, married them or bet on their futures. They are for the most part resolute, weathered, resigned faces, expert at concealment, hav-ing the drama and depth of authentic human beings...