Word: craps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slater, Mo., Ocie Wilson, Negro, killed Romeo Logan, Negro, in a crap-game fight. City marshal and constable came to take Ocie Wilson to jail. While they were taking him there, a large car without license plates cornered their auto against the curb. Twelve men, wearing masks, got out and pointed pistols. The men were believed to be Negroes. Learning of Logan's death, they had come to get Ocie Wilson...
...Well, tell the folks I'm going away now. I guess murder will stop. There won't be any more booze. You won't be able to find a crap game even, let alone a roulette wheel or a faro game. I guess Mike Hughes* won't need his 3,000 extra cops, after all. "Public service is my motto. Ninety-nine percent of the people in Chicago drink and gamble. I've tried to serve them decent liquor and square games. But I'm not appreciated...
They were not a crap-shooting, Jazz-singing jury, like the one that tried Mr. Fall and Oilman Edward L. Doheny two years ago. Miss Bernice Heaton, the telephone instructress, for example, would ride home from court on a trolley car and go out for the evening with a girl friend. Edward K. Kidwell, the leather worker, would go off and kill time between sessions hanging around a soft-drink stand in Four-and-a-Half Street...
...Trap v. Crap...
...Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face - on the part of the Cincinnatians who do not ordinarily use their main streets for that sort of sport...