Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairbanks Sr. cheerfully burlesques Daniel Defoe's old story. He does it by his familiar formula of expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes close to a tropic island and he bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers out of the surf with his alert, parody...
...substitute must provide at least three things: it must be a great spectacle which will attract crowds of paying sight-seers, it must invoke at least the semblance of college rivalry, and it must be so ordered that graduates and undergraduates can easily bet their money on the result. It ought, of course, to be simple enough for the spectators--men, women, and children --to understand. But experience has shown that this is not indispensable if the ballyhoo is sufficiently vigorous. Many a spectator at a football game does not know what it is all about. He sees only...
...first place, it is a better money-maker than a football show. Secondly, it is the sort of event on which the old grads and the undergrads can bet in more way than they can even in football. In the third place, it has the great advantage that the whole audience, including the feminine part, can understand...
...tree in the foreground captioned "The Old Japan"; the same drawing with a cannon substituted for the tree, captioned "The New Japan." Author Van Loon's bright chapter headings catch the eye, may engage many a reader: "Bulgaria, the soundest of all Balkan countries, whose butterfly-collecting King bet on the wrong horse during the Great War and suffered the consequences"; "Rumania, a country which has oil and a royal family...
...Alfred Silverman spell out the name of the Democratic candidate and he will see that it as well as the Republican candidate's contains the letters oove and r. Takers of the long end of the bet have against them only Norman Thomas and Death.-ED. Weak Sister Sirs: I am positively indignant this morning, upon reading in your magazine of Aug. 15, the section National Affairs-The Presidency. The gossipy insinuating idea of publishing an article of the weak sister of a great man-Mr. Herbert Hoover- Is TIME out to belittle Mr. Hoover? If so, why? Such...