Word: craps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Higher Learning. In Olympia, Wash., St. Martin's College devoted its regular weekly science seminar to a new subject: "The mathematical analysis of a crap game...
Avoiding such old dodges as the floating crap game, enthusiastic University scholars have developed a scoresheet arrangement whereby Police interrogation leads only to a reply that heavy losers must pay back by making the beds of the winners. "A little trick I worked up in Prep school," chortled Ale Bell, pudgy faro dealer...
...trying to get out from behind the eight-ball,* B-B-C has made a big decision : to give up on the present generation of pool players. What could be done about such customers as the New Jersey pool-hall proprietor who promotes lunchtime crap shooting on one of BBC's finest billiard table models, makes $80 a day as his cut before the day's regular billiard business begins? B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson...
...kind that look well in a scrapbook. There were the headlines in Philadelphia when Leo slugged a reporter. And the headlines about what happened in Leo's apartment while Leo was away: when Screen Tough George Raft won $18,000 from a gullible manufacturer in a wild-&-woolly crap game...
Stopping off to warm his ego in a hero-worshiping small town, he seduces the local belle (Ann Blyth), hornswoggles a keen judge of character, her father (John Litel), and cleans every small businessman along Main Street in a succession of crap games. In an expansive moment he also helps his slow-moving brother (William Gargan) to swing an important business deal; a little later he almost persuades his brother's wife (Ruth Warrick) to skip town with him. He has, it seems, just one good streak: his young nephew's fatuous, gee-whillikers devotion inspires...