Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer, Robert Goodall, also ran. He wanted to know if Lord Hartington could milk a cow. The Marquess replied: "Yes, and I can spread muck [manure]." He thereupon ignored Goodall, challenged White to a muck-spreading contest for a ?5 bet, winnings to the Red Cross. White was too busy making speeches...
Like a Fox. On Bougainville Island, his pals laughed and bet Private Roy L. Webb $80 that he could not dig a foxhole eight feet wide, four feet deep, and ten feet long in four hours. He tossed out the 19 tons of sand in three hours and 56 minutes...
Parlay. In Oakland, Calif., Reporter "Spike" Kelly picked up a dollar blown into his office by a gale, bet it on a horse, got back $18.50, told the story to Reporter Earl de Soto, who wrote it for a magazine, was paid $2, bet it on a horse, got back...
Great Britain has a new No. 1 wartime sport: dog racing. This was attested last week by no less an authority than the Churches' Committee on Gambling. With a grave face, the Committee reported that Britons had bet $188 million at totalizators (pari-mutuels) at greyhound tracks...
...less essential than the dogs, but far better known, are the bookmakers. Big tracks license 150 or more for each meeting. Two shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...