Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bet on Women (Fox). This picture takes a comedy situation, about good enough for a five-line gag in a vaudeville act, and strings it out somehow into a really funny feature. The three people in the gag are a man-about-town, his lawyer and his lawyer's wife. Every woman, says the man-about-town, wants to be kissed. The lawyer says his wife is an exception. To prove his point the man-about-town bets $10,000 he can kiss the next woman who comes out on the veranda. Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonold and Roland Young...
...Chicago, last December, John F. Barrett, stockbroker (John F. Barrett & Co.), bet his friends that there would not be an official temperature reading as low as zero in Chicago before March 1. He won $1,250. His system: "For years I have been using the wind direction on Ember days as a basis on which to forecast. The Ember days, you know, were named as movable dates for prayer and fasting by the Council of Placentia in 1095. When the December Ember days came, the wind was, over the period, predominantly from the East. As the eastern part...
This Cambridge gambling seems to be patterned on the Harlem model which picks its winner by the Stock Exchange figures for the day. Various applications might be made by others who seek to relieve the tedium of daily duties. Commuters might bet on the time, of arrival of their train, stenographers on the number of letters written during the day, and librarians on the total of books issued. --New York Times...
...inner office of the young financial genius (as indicated, Douglas in plain clothes) and being impressed by large transactions in stock sales made through a selection of innumerable telephones which surround the man, we watch Miss Daniels drawl her way into the sactum sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes a potion that upsets everything...
William Hale Thompson was born in Boston May 14, 1869, scion of a wealthy and respectable family. In 1900 after playcowboying in Wyoming, he took a $50 bet in the Chicago Athletic Club from his friend George Jenney that he was not scared to go into politics, was elected Alderman from the Second Ward. On April 6, 1915 he was elected Mayor of Chicago, with the aid of notorious Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, on a Wet-Dry, White-Black, German-British platform. "Freedom for Ireland" got him his re-election in 1919. His third election...