Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halsey, 73, snorted delightedly as he hammed up his disguised role of a distant predecessor, iron-men-and-wooden-ship Commodore John Paul Jones. After the show, Iron-Man Halsey took off his fancy duds, let down his hair to make a wooden confession: "I'll bet there was nobody in the war more scared, more often, and for as long...
...collectors. The Des Moines show proves that Midwestern collectors do not stick exclusively to such safe 19th century American classics as George Caleb Bingham, George Inness and Thomas Eakins, and the Midwest's Big Three, Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John Steuart Curry. They are also willing to bet their money on modern European masters-Braque, Matisse, Henry Moore and Giacometti-and the still-debated U.S. Painters Max Weber and the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi (opposite...
Franklin P. Adams, himself vulnerable on the score of recklessness,* complains: "Women . . . ask repeatedly how much the blue chips are worth, and the red, and the white; how much they are allowed to bet; they have to be reminded that they're shy, that it's their turn to deal, to bet, to shuffle...
...questionable who made the most off the seventh annual Harvard-Columbia contest the long-shot artists who bet the Crimson might actually win by as much as 14 points, or the sealpers who sold cheap plastic raincoats for twice their value among 13,000 rain-groggy spectators...
...Tofts, the "Godalming rabbit breeder," who claimed that during her paroxysms she frequently gave birth to rabbits. (For a while nobody in England ate rabbit for fear of encountering a parthenogenetic bunny in the rabbit pie.) It was an undemocratic world, in welfare-state terms, but the duke would bet with the chimney sweep at a cockfight. It was a world that had not yet been promised freedom from fear; yet aggressive personal courage seems to have been the common virtue...