Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry unpacked his bags and fixed it. Once again, Horseplayer Hopkins cashed in on the best dark-horse wager he ever made-his historic 1941 bet that the Russians could hold the Germans...
...trick that many a canny Frenchman tried was to place old money on a horse expected to be scratched from a race at Longchamp-hoping that his bet would be returned in new money. (The trick failed.) People with servants redeemed extra money by sending their servants out with extra amounts. Finance Minister René Pleven was cheerful, but the staid old Bank of France considered the whole business a mess...
...When I arrived at the office I heard two charwomen discussing Roosevelt's passing-two women who have, like some of us, endured the blitz, the flying bombs, the rockets in London. 'Blimey!' says one, 'Ain't it a bleeding shime? I'll bet ole Winnie an' Joe'll miss 'im.' 'Do you remember those destroyers he gave us?' says the other. Two poor London charwomen remember...
...automan last week would bet a dime on the accuracy of his answers to these questions...
...Buried Secret. New bits of evidence were brought up. A farmer boy from Enfield produced a piece of bloodstained lead which, he said, must have been that which tore Bet's ear as she climbed out of the bawdyhouse window. Mary Squires herself further complicated things by suggesting that she was a witch quite capable of being in both Enfield and Abbotsbury at once...