Word: betting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be: "Those which is not obtainted . . . etc." and I'll bet you a year's subscription to the Latin American edition that the President of Mexico didn't say that...
...especially the smart looking outfit that preceded us. We offer seven cents to the first Midshipman to invite a WAVE to dinner some night, excluding Lee Shannon, who is about to marry one. Company II will raise the auto to 14 cents if Bob McDonall takes the bet...
Fascism's Labor Day came & went in Italy last week with scarcely a ripple of celebration. Duce Mussolini, who in bet ter days was wont to show himself barechested, building walls in the former Pontine Marshes, was chest-deep in other, less healthy labor. For the second time in a fortnight he shook up his Party leader ship. Tunisia was on his mind. So was his slowly crumbling Blackshirt State. A new generation of resistance was gathering its strength in Italy...
...Jenkins did not yet seem wholly convinced. But except for some loud ranting by California's rampageous Bertrand W. Gearhart and some quiet sniping by New York's crustacean Daniel A. Reed, the Republicans generally seemed relaxed. At this point renewal looked like a safe bet. Economic isolationism might still have a strong hold on the Jenkinses of the U.S., but it was clear that the nation, however slowly, was marching carefully ahead on a path toward participation in the outside world...
...your tastes are fairly well advanced, you will undoubtedly find much of value in "The Real Jazz." If you are a beginner, however, your best bet would be Charles Edward Smith's "Jazzmen...