Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Natty, wisecracking little James John ("Jimmie") Walker, 58, who as playboy mayor of New York City overlooked few bets, visited Mayor LaGuardia's breezy summer headquarters overlooking the World's Fairgrounds, grinned: "Well, well . . . . It's one bet I overlooked...
...starry-eyed Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, Manhattan's 1938-39 Glamor Girl, ended her debutante year and went off to summer in the Adirondacks, Stork Club Pressagent Chic Farmer, who picked her for the post, cast about for her 1939-40 successor. His best bet: tall, blonde, nightclubbing, 17-year-old Mary A. Steele, a product of Miss Chapin's finishing school and the daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele. Mused Publicist Farmer: "She has beautiful teeth...
Host Roosevelt confided his bet on the Louis-Galento fight. Wind tipped a vase of flowers and water into Herbert Lehman's lap, to the confusion of Hostess Eleanor Roosevelt. For the cameras and perhaps for solace, Democrats Stark (Missouri), Cochran (Nebraska) and Lehman ganged up with the President. At the President's feet, beaming innocently, sat a G. O. P. Governor's daughter, Anne Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, and a Democrat's daughter, Julia Holt of West Virginia...
...Glenview, Ill., last week a golf pro named Cyril Wagner, pooh-poohing the failure of a Michigan City colleague to make a hole-in-one after 17 hours of trying the week before, made a locker-room bet ($325 against a brand new automobile) that he could not only make one hole-in-one but two of them within 24 hours. Accompanied by three suitcases of balls, six caddies and two scorekeepers, he took his stance on the 17th tee of the Elmgate Country Club at 8:15 in the evening, began to wham away - at the rate of three...
...Olaf Brand's gouty hypochondria with extra blankets and aquavit, reminding him: "Swedes need to sweat." Nearest Jenny ever gets to Paris high life is Manhattan's sotty El Morocco, where she surveys all the bibbing and napery with a waitress's eye, concludes: "I bet this place has a lot of dirty linen...