Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weekly, which he sold in 1905, founder of George Washington Coffee Co., turf man, brother of President Bartlett Arkell of Beech-Nut Packing Co.; in Los Angeles. Legend is that he once staked Leslie's Weekly against $150,000 on one of his horses, won his bet...
...apartments, offices, and on board ship, pursuing a Bebe Daniels who has dyed her hair blonde for the occasion. He is a market operator of incredible riches and naïveté who has never taken a drink or run after a woman until a friend makes a friendly bet at a party-it is an old story and the treat-ment is old too, in spite of the settings. Douglas Fairbanks carries it off as nearly in his inimitable manner as he can manage amid the encumbrances of modernity. He swings himself around a good deal on poles...
...Britain, Herbert Hoover, King Leopold of the Belgians, and such celebrities as Fanny Ward, Harry Kendall Thaw, Morris Gest. Once she started from London to go around the world "by picking up my traveling and hotel expenses as I went," got as far as Japan, then lost the bet which started her journey by marrying. Sample of that trip: "I was wearing a solitaire diamond . . . slipping it off my finger I dropped it in my corsage . . . I announced : I have lost my ring.' . . . The next morning, imagine my surprise to find he had sent me around...
...young men are unable or do not choose to attend one of these colleges, theoretically they should at least attend a New England institution, for the seats of learning in this area have produced 32% of all Who's.* But the hypothetical best bet is Hampden-Sydney which, although it ranks only seventy-first (52 graduates) in the number of alumni present in Who's Who, rates No. 1 in proportion of alumni-listed-7.45%. Amherst has 296 of its sons, or 7.40% in Who's Who; Harvard, with 6.60%, comes third...
...Harry Thawish. . . . What theatrical att'y has terpsichorines fired from shows when they do not go out with his 'particular' and 'eminent' friends? . . . Dunhill's wishes what Big Eye-Glass Man would pay his cigar bills? . . . What'll y'bet that Yolande Lossee of the Club Calais, and one of John W. Davis' nevviews ankled up a secret altar Satdee and then parted? . . . And that the late Andrew Carnegie's nevview Harry Sproul Jr. of the Racquet & Tennis Club, was welded in the shhh! manner to Annette Boudreau of Ottawa...