Word: casino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snowflakes, light and fluffy, powdered impudently, last week, the Sovereign Principality of Monaco. A bleak sea breeze whipped in across the Casino terrace, whining up long avenues of shivering palms. At the gaming rooms warmth and pulsing chance continued to abide?for business is business?but in a private room at the Casino de Paris, nearby a group of solemn diners pushed back their chairs, lifted their glasses slowly, and drank a last deep toast to "Poor Camille...
Died. Camille Blanc, 81, founder of Monte Carlo's famed Casino; at Nice...
...Term from the card game called Casino. There are 11 points possible in this game (not counting "sweeps"). "Cards" (taking most tricks) counts 3 points. "Spades" (taking most of the suit) counts 1. To "give cards in spades" is, therefore, to give a 36% handicap...
Sneer. Spanish Dictator Primo de Rivera from far-off Madrid, Spanish capital, sneered: "the assembly is no better than a casino; no worth while results come from its discussions." After thus belittling the League, he asserted that Spain had no intention of rejoining that organization "until it is changed," meaning, obviously, until Spain is awarded a permanent seat on the council...
...people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard man) forced Borotra and Brugnon, French invading champions, to a five-set match before accepting defeat in the Heights Casino indoor tournament in Brooklyn. "For an old banker," Mr. Mathey thinks this highly commendable. One other trustee, Frederick P. Scott, 1900, was elected to the Board from the Sixth Region (Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North & South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming...