Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this year in Washington, Emil Hurja and Theodore Huntley began to bet. Mr. Hurja, a prime political dopester in his own right, is Postmaster General Farley's second-in-command at Democratic National headquarters. "Ted" Huntley, a pompous little ex-Washington correspondent with an amazing bass voice, is the arch-Republican secretary of Pennsylvania's arch-Republican Senator David Aiken Reed...
...tales come from Mr. Robert W. G. Vail, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society--formerly headed by President Calvin Coolidge. America's circus history, Mr. Vail says, began in 1720 with the arrival in Boston of a "lyon." Devotees of the "big top" first suffered a setback when "Old Bet," the second elephant to reach this country, was shot by a Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters in Chepachet...
...tackle positions Henry Adlis Seems a sure bet for the right side, but Ed Simmons is only a jump ahead of Bill Lane for the parallel job on the left. Lane has improved a great deal in the last few days and is now rated as at least second string. For guards, Franks Littlefield will be Captain Herman Gund- lach's understudy, with Bob Brookings a grasshopper's length ahead of Fran Schumann for the opposite side of the line. Gundy, incidentally, will be ready for contact work today or tomorrow...
...nomadic life which first her parents, then her husband led her through the shacks of small Massachusetts communities. Two of her children, and probably the third, are illegitimate. With disgust Professor Glueck and his wife report: "The alleged father of Minnie's third child had made a bet with some of the neighborhood bums that he could have intercourse with Minnie under a street light. He won his bet, the act taking place behind a bowling alley while the gang watched from outside the window...
...arrange photographic studies of college buildings; if you want to get a picture of the latest visiting lecturer on anything under the sun; in short, if you are interested in the technique of photography and the experience of actual newspaper work along this line, your best and only bet among college activities is the Photographic competition of the CRIMSON...