Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood Party (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens with Jimmy Durante as "Schnarzan the Great," burlesquing Johnny Weismuller in a scene with Lupe Velez (Mrs. Johnny Weismuller). Says Durante: "Beneath this here lion's cloth beats a heart that's seethin' with sentiment." Says Velez: "I'll bet you say that to every animal." Distressed, Durante uproots a tree, beats his chest, yodels through his nose. The picture also contains a plot in which Durante functions as an outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions...
Clucked Warbucks' friends: "He's given millions to help poor people like me. . . . He paid the mortgage on my home. . . . What a farce! I'll bet half the jury aren't even sure what they're trying...
...Hagerstown, Md.. races, the pencil of one D. H. Beck ran down the list of entries, stopped short beside the name of a two-year-old filly. On her nose Beck slapped a $1 bet. First across the line galloped his choice. Back home where his wife was trying out a new cook went D. H. Beck with $404.20 profit from his bet on Filly Trycook...
...records for a bicycle trip to New York were broken this week by Harold Frankel '34, diminutive Crimson wrestler and CRIMSON newsboy, who trundled his way to the City of Bright Lights in the time of 19 hours and 40 minutes to win his bet from Henry G. Olken '32 and deliver his message from Mayor Russell of Cambridge to Mayor La Guardia of New York City...
Pageant King Frank Barton, ex-Culver, ex-Princeton, ex-president of the Cotton Exchange, rose with some misgivings from his gaudy throne atop a stack of cotton bales. "Frank Barton's got on tights!" the crowd sniggered. "Bet he's cool all right. Now he helpin' the Queen off the boat." Across an excited margin of sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress...