Word: bouncers
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...gambling casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol...
Lester Lanin gave his monogrammed beanies to appreciative dates as he played, but one Clubman remarked that very few members were dancing because "even when you make it a closed party and hire a bouncer, all sorts of riff-raff get in." For one reason or another there wasn't the spirit that the visitor remembered from New Haven last fall...
...cesspool, a garbage can . . . the hickest of all hick towns." Of U.S. Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson. "You know what I think of Hoover. Turn him upside down, and he looks the same." As for the Roosevelts, Teddy "had the manners of a saloon bouncer and the soul of a stuck pig, and FDR is the synthesis of all the liars, scoundrels, and cheapskates of mankind...
...polite fiction was offered great gobs of something called Life. Just as history seemed to be jostling Europe to a new war, the author of Tropic offered to abolish history. The book displayed life as a perpetual riot of gabble and rut in which Narrator Miller kept a bouncer's hard eye for anyone likely to break up the party. Its explosion was timely, but the shock wave passed quickly. Now Miller seems as drably dated as one of his favorite writers, H. Rider (She) Haggard, another man who "wrote at the top of his voice...
After a scoreless third stanza, in which the Terriers backchecked furiously and seemed content with a tie, the game went into sudden death overtime. Almost immediately Forbes Keith got a breakaway in the B.U. zone and, racing to the Crimson blue line, shot a tricky bouncer into Charlie Flynn's pads. For a second the rebound stopped dead six feet in front of the poised Flynn. Terrier captain Jack Murphy got around the defense and slapped in the loose puck for the deciding goal...