Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Adams, ironic, questioning, dubious, ill directed in his search for a manifest destifly as much the monarch--a suitable Adams word--among his contemporaries? But on this or on any other philosophic aspect of his subject Mr. Adams refuses to speculate. Only once, after carefully heading his bet, does he launch out into the realm of personal speculation. "I may," he says, "be quite wrong, but from living with the writings of Henry Adams I carry the impression that the key to much of his life and attitude lies in the sentences I have just quoted. The dream...
...Take a Chance"--Apollo, 42nd Street--A regular rollicking Broadway musical comedy. Excellent dialogue from Jack Haley and Sid Silvers, and silver notes from Ethel Merman. A sure bet...
...April issue of The American Mercury has little to recommend it. However, Mr. Mencken manages to be interesting in his editorial especially when he writes on Calvin Coolidge. The anecdote which tells of a man who was willing to bet that President Harding would be assassinated before the end of his term, since he was sure that "Cal" was "the demndest lucky man in the world," will possibly be new to most readers...
...making a bet by the pari-mutuel system, a better goes to one of a row of windows, states the amount of his bet and the name of his horse, pays his money to a clerk, receives in exchange a ticket recording the transaction which he can cash after the race if his horse wins. The clerk records the bet; during the race, the odds on each horse are determined with mathematical fairness in ratio to the amount of money bet on each...
...promised $20,000,000. Huey Long announced: "I am not a betting man but I am willing to bet no person loses a thin dime. . . . Watch for Monday. All will be happy." On Monday all banks opened for business one hour earlier than usual. The Hibernia ran a full-page advertisement (from which President Hecht's name was omitted), offering to pay each & every depositor on demand. New Orleans returned to its preparations for Mardi Gras...