Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever a Supreme Court opinion shows that fervor and forthrightness which men usually describe as "youthful" it is almost a safe bet that it is Justice Holmes's writing. Only this week, dissenting from the majority verdict in a double taxation case, he spoke in characteristic tones. "As the decisions now stand," he wrote, "I see hardly any limit but the sky to the invalidating of those rights (the constitutional rights of the states) if they happen to strike a majority of this court as for any reason undesirable. I cannot believe that the (Fourteenth) Amendment was intended to give...
...meat was locusts and wild honey." Shakespeare in Othello refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts was said to have caused "panics" in the smaller villages. At Athens...
...bet the sentence was ungrammatical: 100 glasses of cold beer. "In landing on a rough and muddy field at Tela" is a dangling phrase, since "propeller" and not "plane" is the subject of the sentence yet it was obviously the plane that did the "landing."-ED. Pornographer Stravinsky...
When hecklers at Sunbury tormented Secretary Davis with questions about his Prohibition stand, he yelled at them: "I'll bet 10¢ Joe Grundy paid you to ask those questions...
Strolling down from the stand a little later, the King-Emperor approached with frank curiosity a "tote" or totalizator, a modification of the French pari mutuel betting machine, which has been introduced at British meets since the onset of His Majesty's illness. On a series of automatic dials the machine shows the total of bets on each horse up to the moment of starting and the grand total of bets. On the basis of these totals the totalizator automatically sets the odds. In "tote" or pari mutuel betting a percentage of the whole sum wagered is deducted...