Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unexpected situation arose when Miss Mildred Madigan of West Roxbury, a veteran baton twirler, attempted a coup d'etat between the halves. The 19 year old blond, trying to win a sorority bet by leading the Band, was prevented from getting on the field by Robert M. Peebles '40, manager...
...Congress, of course, should not be allowed to serve successive terms. Neither should Presidents. To date the cost of reelections in this country is most of the National Debt. Youth should not ask for representation. Youth should take it, and plenty of it. A young fool is a better bet than an old fool...
Prior to this catastrophe, Bert Wheeler bet his watch with a guy that Lee Dixon, premier lover of the U. S. fleet, could garner a garter from Miss Martin, premiere iceberg of the Republic of Panama. In the meantime, Miss Martin has fallen for her hero, and he for her, but when she learns of the wager, she calls the affair off until the final curtain...
Four days later six Senators lolled in their chairs, one of them asleep. The galleries were half empty. The U. S., and the Senate with it, was watching the World Series. In Vice President John Garner's cloakroom, office a near-quorum collected around his portable radio, bet cigars on the scores. Despairing of a week-end quorum in the chamber, leaders moved debate ahead to this week. In five days the Great Debate had gone bloop...
What kind of concession could Germany make that would save Allied face? Best bet seemed to be a pint-sized "ethnographic" Polish State around Warsaw. Herr Hitler spoke mistily of further central European ethnographic shifts. An "autonomous" Polish State could always be rigged in favor of the Nazis to save them face. But if the Allied negotiator held out for an autonomous CzechoSlovakia, and there was much talk in the House of Commons about that, the negotiations would probably not get very...