Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young woman rose very pale from the baccarat table at Deauville Casino. She swayed and seemed about to faint, then her eyes fixed on a swarthy, paunchy Indian, His Highness the Aga Khan. As though impelled by hypnosis she took a step toward the Khan...
...necessary only to be cameractual, phonographic. The rest of the characters look, smirk and jabber as if they belonged. The story is that of Buddy Miles, an apparently pure in body−if not in spirit−miss who is prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress, so when Julia jealously threatened to blab to Buddy and thereby spoil Miller's impending amour, Miller strangles...
...playhouse, where last week was held the 20th annual Stockbridge Art Exhibit. Twenty years ago, when Edward L. Morse, son of Telegrapher Samuel F. B. Morse, began the tradition of Stockbridge art exhibits, it was natural that he stepped-across the street from his own "White Lodge" to the Casino which stood opposite. Like all colonists, he was proud of the Casino...
Next to the family of French, the family of Johansen has added most distinction to the exhibitions in the old Casino. Painter John Christen Johansen came first to Stockbridge to visit his good friend Walter Leighton Clark. Enchanted, he remained to colonize, paint. Great and friendly is the rivalry between Painter Johansen and Painter Jean MacLane. Both rank with the foremost U. S. portrait painters, whose canvasses are held bargains...
Andre Citroen, French motorman, was again at Deauville Casino calling "banco suivi suivi." During an evening in which he lost $500,000, Madame Citroen kept chiding him. He kept retorting. They became a nuisance, were asked to keep quiet. Said Madame: "Messieurs, surely I have the right to protect my home against a madman...