Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prentice's apology for the writing in TIME [July 16] is evidence, I will be frank, that he is not a literary critic. TIME style not only exists; it stinks. It may be economical, as you suggest, in a narrow, mechanical sort of way, but I'll bet that most people who have read widely and appreciatively in the great tradition of English and American prose from Aelfric to Stein & Joyce will agree that the prose in your magazine is pretty awful...
...bet you're plenty sore at the civilians," one guy began confidentially. Horn tried not to be snotty. He drank and drank but he was cold sober when he finally left the place and walked the girl home...
Rummaging in the Governor's closet, he appropriated a battered hat, an exclamatory sweater knitted by Vancouver Island Indians. He won a $5 bet from Governor Wallgren that his own suit was the older (it was bought in 1939). He rose early to stroll on the wide lawns, sometimes played the piano before breakfast. Going to the Capitol, he sat down at an organ under the lofty, music-amplifying dome, launched into Beethoven's Minuet in G and the Blackhawk Waltz. Then, with the Governor and Press Secretary Charlie Ross, he sang Peggy O'Neil and Melancholy...
...tidbit level, the diary does better. Ciano says that Ribbentrop bet him a collection of antique arms against an Italian painting that Britain and France would not go to war if Germany invaded Poland. (Ribbentrop never paid up.) Ciano identifies Adolf Hitler's mistress during the summer of 1939 as one Sigrid von Lappus, and describes her as having "beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body...
...England, citizens bet an estimated $40 million on their 164th Derby. With gas rationing eased, they hauled out ancient crates and cluttered the 90-mile road from London to Newmarket with traffic jams. Seam-busting race trains pulled out of Liverpool Station. Newmarket (the Derby is run at Epsom Downs in peacetime) was jammed with over 50,000 fans -including the King & Queen and thousands of G.I.s taking in their first Derby...