Word: crapping
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...born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in Minneapolis, the son of an impoverished Polish rabbi, grew up in Chicago to become Mike Todd, his own special creation. He got off to a fast start at eight, playing poker and shooting dice. At twelve he was running an established but impermanent floating crap game. Since then, in one way or another, he has never stopped gambling. He asserts, probably correctly, that he is the only man ever to lose a race track on a horse race...
Though chartering reduces the risks, Niarchos and the other independents are engaged, as one independent said recently, "in the biggest floating crap game in the world." They rely on long-term contracts and fixed rate scales for steady income; only by keeping some ships available for short-term charters can they take advantage of the sudden rises in rates that turn the big profits. When world oil consumption spurted a mere 10% in 1948, charter rates rose 250%. On the other hand, a prolonged fall in tanker rates can come close to wrecking an independent...
...Wendell Corey play neatly in tandem as the cowardly hero and the heroic coward, and France's Nicole Maurey does something rare in dramatic history. She makes a believable human being of the sentimental prostitute. But it is Mickey Rooney who brings off the best scene: a crap game so shatteringly funny that it almost breaks up the picture. And at the end, as he staggers across the battlefield in desperate pursuit of the money, of the future that blows away from him forever, the audience is confronted with an image that may almost suggest the mindless immensity...
...like a pretty woman loaded with syphilis." The chief disease carrier is a dropsical old shark called Book Gresham, the tag end of Tuxahatchie's first family. In defiance of the 13th Amendment, Book Gresham keeps a slave called Bodoc whom he won in a crap game. Symbolically, Book is impotent, apparently the result of one of those odd Southern boyhood experiences (with a Negro woman "musty like wild grapes") that suggest Dr. Kinsey was wasting his time among the modest aberrations of Northern folk...
...east as Reno, rain sent the peaceful Truckee River on a binge, cut the city in half. Undaunted tourists kept yanking undaunted one-arm bandits in Harolds Club, joked about floating crap games. Though no lives were lost, the Reno region suffered $5,000,000 in damages. In southwest Oregon, the heaviest rains in 78 years brought floods that killed twelve people and flung huge fir logs off cliffs like harpoons...