Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remorseful, clattering hangover and getting down the first drink of the day. Psychiatrists try to help them by discovering the hidden reason for drinking and showing how it can be removed. But cynics in sanatoriums, watching a sober man walk out the door full of good intentions, often bet on how many days or weeks will elapse before he is back. Nagging by families usually makes things worse...
...needle (from one case--not too good a test, it's true) seems to be good for only two hundred sides--and that at dire risk to your records. Either the needle is bad, the record surface poor--or quite possibly both. Cactus needles look like a far safer bet...
Feeling like a kid at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, Actor Jackie Coogan gave an affable bookie calling himself "Colonel Hunt" $500 to bet on the nose of a long shot, King Cotton. King Cotton won, paid off at $12.40 for $2 on the mutuel machines. Bookmakers do not operate at the New Orleans Fair Grounds...
...force or feeling that made Rice's Street Scene truly expressive of a phase of New York life. Like Imperial City, Rice's flashy novel about Manhattan, Two on an Island is slicker than sincere, more lifelike than alive. It's a pretty safe bet in the theatre that, when Boy Meets Girl, Artist Meets Waterloo...
...Miami, Jack Doyle, King of the Bookies, said: "Not a quarter is being bet...