Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breezed up on the stand, recalled that Prizefighters Sharkey & Stribling and Mrs. Tex Rickard had been Capone's guests in Florida, said that at the end of the 1929 racing season he had won $110.-000 from Snorkey. He could not remember any of the horses Snorkey had bet on. The defense rested...
Harvard has a new coach and I bet he didn't get much sleep last night but if Casey's worried I'll tell him that the Crimson will win 41 to 0. Harvard's other opponents will fare as follows: Boston University 13 N. Hampshire 6 West Point 53 Knox 0 Texas 14 Missouri 7 Virginia 7 Maryland 19 Dartmouth 34 Buffalo 0 Holy Cross 24 Providence 0 Yale 54 Maine...
...beautifully, never let the weight of his thought conquer his fondness of imagery. ''The ox of today." he said, "aspires to no more than did the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of the English Channel, who poises him self above the swift steamer, wants no bet ter food or lodging than the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caesar's galleys first grated on an English beach...
...Actor Cohan, who wrote the piece, also wrote in a little part (that of the young litterateur's sister) so that his pretty daughter Helen Frances might make her Broadway debut. Cloudy With Showers- This is the one about the shy college professor and the skittish maiden who bets that she can make him enamored of her - and wins the bet. At no time does the farce get any closer to sanity than those late famed collegiate musicomedies, Good News and You Said It. But Cloudy With Showers has a certain breathlessness about it which may amuse before...
...smart vice president of U. S. Lines, the man who got Banker Chapman of Chicago into the shipping business, who has been running U. S. Lines for him for two years, and who now is on an indefinite leave of absence. But last week Steamship Row was inclined to bet on Shipper Franklin against all comers, especially if a means could be found to reconcile him and Banker Chapman by giving the latter a stock interest in a new company run by experienced...