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Word: craps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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NICK THE GREEK EXPLAINS $750,000 CRAP LOSS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Leader | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Wild Asses" is described in a preliminary announcement as a "novel of undergraduate life at Harvard University". The situations are all laid before the familiar background of the Yard and Harvard Square. The author takes up "parties, love affairs, crap games and philosophic discussions," whether in that order or not is left unexplained by the announcement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saul Missed but Dunton Succeeds as "Wild Asses" Invokes Its Readers to Be "Culturally Sunburned" if Not "Tanned" | 1/31/1925 | See Source »

...Suffern, N. Y., Clara McKeath-on, 21, was sentenced to eight years in Auburn Prison for shooting and killing Lawrence Hawkshaw, 15, her opponent in a crap game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Publicly Humiliated | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...Call of the Canyon. Glenn Kilbourne survives gassing in the War. But on his return the spectacle of his love fox-trotting and crap-shooting knocks him out. The Doctor ships him to Arizona, where a ravishing (but simple) ranchman's 'daughter nurses him back to health. Meanwhile the fox-trotter and crap-shooter runs out to Arizona for a personally conducted tour of inspection. A bad old villain chases her through a fearful storm to a deserted cabin. The hero rescues her, but she returns to fox-trotting. There is still the ranchman's daughter. Marjorie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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