Word: bets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scale model of a modernistic decentralized community by Radical Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Mayor McNair whistled, let fly: "It's all right but you could never put Democrats in there. What if they'd want to get drunk or visit somebody's wife? This thing is Utopia. I'll bet they even tell you how many babies to have in each house. I just sent a gang of drunks to the workhouse. Put that bunch in Wright's village and it wouldn't be two weeks before they'd wreck it. This town is built for a lot of social...
...have no explanation for this Pittsburgh "phenomenon." I should hesitate to call Pittsburgh "tolerant" so I refuse to bet very heavily on the reception accorded subsequent Pittsburgh productions of Waiting for Lefty scheduled in the near future...
John now occupies his father's old office on the ground floor of the 13-story building in Des Moines's "Loop" He works hard, loves to play. He will bet on anything, any time, for any amount from a pack of cigarets up. His favorite gambling companion is his young brother "Mike." and when they play golf there are bets on nearly every stroke. John has a duffer's swing but manages to score about...
...suitable match for Champion Baer. Jimmy Braddock himself was now about to have a crack at the heavyweight championship of the world. As he slipped the blue bathrobe from his pink back, he was the sentimental favorite of a Bowl crowd of 30,000, most of whom had bet their money 8-to-1 against...
Does this decision mean that the U. S. has no control over any national economic problem? The simplest example is crop adjustment. Is the Federal Government to take its hands off adjusting crops? If we do, it is a safe bet there will soon be 36? wheat and 5? cotton...