Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrestler Jim Londos who had won a match the night before put a bet on Sweep All, horse of Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). Barney Oldfield, smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl...
...heartily recommend the various "short subjects", and the accompanying comedy. "Don't Bet on Women", featuring Jeannette MacDonald. And the news-reel...
...moved to New York the same year. Once thought to be its prize customer was Benjamin F. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson, greatest of the grain manipulators, who cornered wheat in 1888. Perhaps one reason for the move to Manhattan was that at that time potent Chicago speculators, including John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates and Col. John Adams Drake, were transferring activity to Wall Street. Later the firm played a big part in James R. Keene's operations in United States Steel. Broker for some big Hartford insurance companies. Pynchon became intrenched in New England. Legend has it that James...
What remains of Fifty Million Frenchmen is trivial comedy about a young American in Paris who wins a bet that he can earn enough money to get along and make friends with a pretty girl...
Born, To Sir Hari Singh ("Mr. A"), Maharaja of Kashmir, opulent millionaire; and his third wife, whom he married four years ago; a son; in Cannes, France. Some months ago Sir Hari made "a large bet" that his expected offspring would be a male. Terms of the bet did not forbid Sir Hari & Wife to employ the yoga method (mental concentration) for producing offspring of the sex desired...