Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater cause for rejoicing. By final reckonings their biggest business, tourists, was best since the boom days of 1925-26. During the winter, 1,750,000 visitors, a quarter million more than last year, had spent $625,000,000. On horse and greyhound racetracks 2,000,000 persons had bet $36,500,000, up $7,500,000 from last year...
...playing opposite her. Samples, in Goin' to Town: "If you're the backbone of your family, they'd better see a chiropractor." "I always kinda liked Delilah. There was one lady barber who made good." To an acquaintance who offers to take her bet at a racetrack: "You'll take...
Dolly: I wonder if they take these conversations down. I bet they're funny...
Happy last week was Louisville's most famed bookmaker, taciturn Sam ("Dink") Dinklespiel, most of whose clients had bet on Edward Riley Bradley's Boxthorn. An amiable, round-paunched, ruddy-faced bachelor, Bookmaker Dinklespiel is the most phlegmatic member of his profession in the U. S. He says he cannot remember the biggest bets he has accepted because "those things make little impression...
...nourished only by cracked wheat, brown sugar, cream and raisins. Among the contestants were: two grandmothers, from Houston and Detroit; one Irving Malman, 28, whose mother had him stopped by police when the race had gone two miles; a 69-year-old Memphis lumberman named Frank May, who bet a friend $3,000 he would finish the walk. The friend accompanied the race in a car pulling May's automobile trailer, equipped with icebox, piano, hostess and Lumberman May's Negro valet...