Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lugubrious caterwauling, and harbors were hideous with metallic moans. A dozen great ships inbound from Europe and the Caribbean, and scores of lesser liners, hove to rather than try to make port. The Cunard-White Star liner Majestic stood off Ambrose Light for two days while her impatient passengers bet on the length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly in a mudbank. Near the Statue of Liberty a ferry sank a coal-barge...
Same day Stenographer Elsa Sittell, arrested for saying "You can bet your life Hitler is no Aryan!" (TIME, Jan. 7) was released without trial after ten days in jail, apparently because she is a U. S. citizen and the German Government feared the publicity she could give them. Correspondents waiting outside a thin door heard the prosecutor shout at the top of his voice "Miss Sittell you are free! You can go wherever you please!! You can make any statement you like about your imprisonment BUT BE SURE TO SPEAK THE EXACT TRUTH...
According to the flabbergasted customs guard, "this woman then continued her slanderous tirade against the Realmleader. She said: 'Anyhow you can bet your life he's no Gentile...
...dollar bet with Brady, the drug clerk, that Swanson would defeat Grayside on Thanksgiving Day. Gus had lost a dollar each year for the past six years on that game. But, as he always confided to Nelly, a team can't win every time. Gus was still grateful for that six bits he cleaned up back in '28 when Swanson won by a safety...
Huey Long offered to bet that Louisiana State could beat Minnesota and Alabama on the same afternoon. Having made one member of the team a State Senator (see p. 17), he promised colonelcies to all State players who made touchdowns against George Washington University. Bert Yates made the one that enabled Louisiana to squeak through...