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...patient unraveling shows a general if sometimes unconscious concentric design, spiraling ever closer to monopolistic unity. Rough-&-ready "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, plebeian founder of a proudly aristocratic family, trusted nobody, kept all his accounts in his head. One of his business letters: Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I will not site you, for law takes too long. I "will ruin you. Sincerely yours, Cornelius Vanderbilt. On his deathbed he refused the bottle of champagne prescribed by the doctor, stingily demanded, ''Won't sody-water do instead?" Psalm-singing Daniel Drew, credited with inventing "watered...
Most players enjoy these holdings less frequently than they should. They cheat themselves out of juicy hands by hasty or unskillful shuffling which does not produce true random distribution. After a hand of play the pack is composed of 13 tricks the great majority of which contain three or four cards of like suit. If the deal is made from this unshuffled pack, each player will get one card from each trick, and the result will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds...
...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
...cinema only mildly impaired by scenes such as a wild ride in a dilapidated Ford and a preposterous interlude in a Pullman car, inserted to give Marie Dressier a chance to execute her comic chompings, blinkings and shoulder twitchings. Good shot: Beulah Bondi, when she wants him to cheat their old servant, urging Lionel Barrymore to think with his eyes closed...
...table in the snow, he plays cards with the young lady who advised him to walk through the mirror, no longer marble now but a solemn and equivocal Muse. A polite audience chuckles at the game from the balconies of the courtyard. When the young man tries to cheat and fails, he puts a bullet through his brain...