Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about far-from-highbrow worldlings. Her conversational style is growing on her to such an extent that she no longer bothers very much to punctuate: " 'We are heading for the Luxembourg gardens, will you sit there with me for a moment, I'll drive you home, I bet that you dine at half-past seven...
Grade (coquettishly) : Oh, George, I'll bet you tell those things to all the girls...
Some 30 years ago left-handed Auguste Piccard, gangling, mischievous Munich student, had a barber-shop shave, bet the barber that "his whiskers grew faster than any others in the world." Shortly after "he" reappeared at the barber's with an eighth-inch beard. The flabbergasted barber shaved, learned later that "he" was Jean, Auguste's right-handed twin. Last week as he waited for redoubtable Professor Auguste Piccard's ship to come into New York Harbor, Jean Piccard, who until last year was a Hercules Powder Co. chemist and lives at Marshalltown, Del., voiced some cogent...
...regard to my bet with Governor Cross of 1? on the Harvard-Yale game, which you mention on p. 56 of the Dec. 5 issue of TIME, I should like to elaborate a little further...
Commented the "floozy," Taxi-dancer Salo: "I bet his old wife's tickled to death he has to go back. ... A nice girl?I don't think. . . . I'm in love with some one else right...