Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power; 13 light cruisers, twelve heavy cruisers, about 70 destroyers, 25 submarines, four aircraft carriers and a highly efficient air force to screen and precede the dreadnoughts. Wherever Joe Richardson was, he was sure to be smoking his pipe, playing penny-a-point cribbage. And it was a safe bet that he was maneuvering his formidable armada at some place nearer his base at Pearl Harbor (see map, pp. 14-75) than to the South China Sea, where Japan was up to no good...
When Swarthmore's beloved President Frank Aydelotte announced last autumn that he would quit to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, it was a good bet that he would pick his own successor. Swarthmore's faculty, alumni and trustees last week elected as president Dr. Aydelotte's assistant, Professor John William Nason...
...Best bet was that Gamelin had been put on the shelf, joining the spiritual company of his old chief General Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, who in World War I bungled at Verdun, and General Charles Louis Marie Lanrezac, who boggled at Charleroi...
...business districts in the early '30s. Almost as familiar was the legend of their bush-browed proprietor John Raklios. He had hit the Loop in 1901, fresh from Greece with $10 in his pocket, had parlayed a basket of fruit into a sidewalk fruit stand, then switched his bet to popular-priced restaurants. In 1928, his top year, his chain did a gross business of $3,600,000, and talkative John Raklios, with a classic "stromberry" accent, counted himself a millionaire, with a $65,000 mansion on Sheridan Road...
Cagney: As the capstone to Warners' build-up of Ann Sheridan, the fade-out required Cagney to observe: "You and your 14-carat oomph!" When Cinemactor Cagney protested the line, Producer Mark Hellinger bet him $100 that audiences would give the gag the loudest laugh of the film. A few days after the preview, Producer Hellinger found Cagney's check for $100 in the mail...