Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words to Baldy. The bookie's eyes flicked to the tote board, caught the changing odds on the day's featured race-the $25,000 Fall Highweight Handicap. Then Baldy winked. No money had changed hands, but the substantial citizen had just made a substantial-and illegal-bet...
...ruffled recently when Princess Elizabeth took in the races, theater and a nightclub in Paris on a Sunday. The King toasted his daughter in champagne. A helicopter brought thousands of birthday greetings. Britain wondered (and doubted) whether Margaret would settle down. Said an East End docker last week: "I bet she's a handful...
...their own life brawled through the narrow streets. Barrels of wine flowed at the village inns. Sidewalk loafers opened up parking lots for bicycles, hawked Maria's autograph to dusty pilgrims. In the village square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes. Soon the pilgrims began betting on whether Maria would die. They bet money, their wine crops, their horses, mules and even pieces of land. As Maria's hour of agony drew near the wine flowed faster, the music beat louder, the bets went higher...
From the late George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Co., Loewy won a $50,000 bet that he could improve the green & gold package of Lucky Strikes. He finally even persuaded Hill to change it to white (Lucky Strike green went to war) on the argument that since people put cigarettes in their mouths, they like to see them in sanitary-looking containers...
...that there should be courses having nothing to do with art, because to develop a fine artist you have to teach the whole man." Whether or not they had received the best possible school training, it was a fair bet that some of the exhibiting students would be heard from, adding to the vari ety and perhaps heightening the quality...