Word: blackjacking
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...disco, "the night of the year." On the mezzanine, gamblers were already crowding into the posh casino. Through the large picture windows they could see the pounding surf and a clear blue afternoon sky that seemed to bode well. As bettors hunched forward for yet another round of blackjack and croupiers gave the roulette wheels an added spin, there came a whisper: "Smoke." Nobody paid any attention...
Quincy residents would then have used roulette wheels, craps and blackjack games to increase their supply of play money. The organizers had planned to sell raffle tickets for the play money, and hold a drawing at the end of the evening for prizes, Murphy said...
...president of the company, only to be in turn dethroned underhandedly by none other than the secretly depraved Prudence. At this point occurs the long-anticipated "surprise ending"--not much of an ending and even less of a surprise: the tables are turned through a climactic game of blackjack (at least it isn't trivial Puritan), in which the Devil is foiled by none other than the Narrator (Fred Pletcher), who has remained a grotesquely audible and visible presence since the beginning of the prologue. But there's more: the Narrator, reveals himself, much to chenagrin--"I'm the author...
...business management. Graduating first in her class, she won a $1,000 scholarship to advance her studies. She spent the money touring Europe with her boyfriend from The Bronx, Steve Rozansky, who last week peddled the pictures of her to New York newspapers. Says Rozansky, now a casino blackjack dealer: "She told me my New York Jewish accent would always make me seem dumb. She was very proud of her family, fond of going to the Mayflower Ball." After returning to New York in 1973, they broke up, and Barrows worked diligently for three years in the Abraham & Straus department...
...Bhagwan, who set up the community in 1981, has taken a vow of silence; he tours his 64,000-acre ranch in a $119,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur with armed guards. His followers, mostly middle-class refugees from urban living, smile frequently, embrace warmly, and enjoy poker and blackjack in their private casino...