Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race-AMON-Clocker's best bet...
...wonder Upton Sinclair can't get his book, Enemy in the Mouth, published. He still thinks of alcoholism in terms of "John Barleycorn," a term that went out, if I am not mistaken, shortly after the turn of the century. I bet that Sinclair still goes to temperance lectures on the Demon Rum and plays the ballad, Father, Dear Father Come Home With Me Now on the old piano roll...
...told me the decision had been taken, that Churchill would resign in the first week of April,'' cabled Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre, with a newsman's reticence about his sources. He had, of course, other pipelines, and although a well-known London editor offered to bet that Churchill would stay on the job, Laguerre confidently passed the word to our editors in New York...
Across the Styx. Toward the last, Rice stopped following the champions down the fairways and into the dugouts. But he loved to go out and bet on the ponies, and though the rest of the rhymesters and paragraphers had largely disappeared from the newspapers, he kept up his occasional verse. After many of his friends had died, he wrote a characteristic verse to Charon, the boatman of the Styx...
...year-old gaffer who got a pass from the geriatrics ward of Limerick City Home and Hospital last week hobbled down the street with the same fixed purpose as many another Irishman, sick or well. He was heading for the nearest bookie to bet a tanner or a bob on the Grand National. "The sixpenny bet," said an authority on Fitzwilliam Square (Dublin's Harley Street), "is a great piece of therapy. It keeps them living-to see if their horse wins." Last Saturday, as Quare Times won at Aintree (see SPORT), the Irish hospitals won straight across...