Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what you have to say is very special, then even the clearest way of saying it may not be at all easy to follow. The difficulty in Miss Handy's poem--which is its punctuaton--I now think to be this sort of necessary difficulty. But I will bet that Joyce and Miss Handy wrote as simply as their subjects permitted them to write; and I will state as a fact that most of the people writing for the Advocate and Signature write as complicatedly as they can, and that they do so in order to hide the fact that...
There is supposed to be a man who gets $100 and up a day by betting anyone he meets who owns a cigarette lighter that the lighter won't work on the first try. I'm going into the same sort of business myself. I'll bet anybody who sits down to phone a girl at Radcliffe or Wellesley between 7 p.m. and closing hour that on the first try the line is busy; and I'll bet the same thing on the second try, with small odds...
...only trouble is that although everybody will bet on his cigarette lighter, nobody will bet on my proposition. And that's because the rottenness of the telephone equipment in girls' dormitories is discovered sooner, and impressed more often on more people, than any other single piece of knowledge got out of a Harvard education. In one Radcliffe house, there is one line for more than 20 girls. Most of the others have something like three incoming lines and one outgoing for about 50 girls. And it's just as bad for the inmates as it is for the callers: they...
...tiny handful of prophets had escaped being caught with their pants down. On the Truman campaign train, a few days before the election, Columnist Jay Franklin, now a Truman speech writer, had bet newsmen that Truman would win with at least 278 electoral votes. Jack Kroll, director of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, also had declared: "Truman is going to win in spite of what the polls say. The polls [are] cockeyed...
...planned the coup carefully. First, the horse was bought last July for about ?4,000 with only the Cambridgeshire in mind. The tough, hilly Newmarket course was studied foot by foot so that the jockey could be told "where to do what" far in advance. Townley bet his money strategically, in driblets spread among more than 80 bookmakers. He got some money on at 50 to 1, some more al 40. Then the price eased off to 33. Sterope went to the post at 25 to 1. Altogether Townley bet about $16,000 on him to win -and Sterope...