Word: blackjacking
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...pool and ornate saloons. One of its prime functions plainly is to house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest collection of permanently established floating crapshooters seen east of Las Vegas, plus dozens of big-time Miami Beach horseplayers...
Heirloom? In Detroit, Fred Whiting, charged with carrying a concealed weapon, explained: "That blackjack really isn't mine, your honor. It belongs to my mother...
...funny, but would be a great deal funnier if Newby had made the smile on the face of his souvenir sphinx a little more inscrutable. Missing is the magic touch of the old master, the young Evelyn Waugh, whose clown's bladder was deadly as a blackjack. Newby's hurts no one, not even the Egyptians...
Devotion Lotion. In Cincinnati, William Stokes, 57, Bishop of the Spiritual Church of God, explained to police that the blackjack" he was carrying was for "protection of myself and my congregation," and the bottle of gin, for "sacrificial purposes...
Trauma. In Akron, Henry Lee Ivery, whose blackjack and revolver were confiscated by police last November after he shot at a prowler, filed a $1,500 suit against the city of Akron, alleging that he has suffered ever since from a "feeling of insecurity...