Word: craps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gunnery student plunked in 45 out of a possible 200. At the toughest kind of firing, where ten in 200 is considered workmanlike, he had given an expert's performance. U.S. fellow students heard of it with respectful whistles. They also commended the Chinese ability in outdoor sports, crap shooting, hangar flying (bull sessions to college students...
...Moines with 24 inches of snow in 24 hours. It snapped telephone wires like twigs, stranded busses full of soldiers all over the State. One lot of a dozen was spilled out at the Sheldon-Munn Hotel at Ames, where the men established a comfortable bivouac, started a rousing crap game...
...minority, the Negro. The love story of the lame beggar, Porgy, and his sultry Bess is the main theme, which is surrounded with the life in Catfish Row, its joys and sorrows, its day to day gayety and the sudden tragedies springing from a storm at sea or a crap-game brawl. In the first scene the huge stevedore, Crown, with his blood on fire by liquor and the caresses of Bess, his woman, kills a man and then flees from the white man's justice leaving Bess to seek refuge with Porgy. Then comes one of the most mystic...
...Chicago has ever had any trouble getting down a bet on the horses, finding a crap game, or getting a seat at a public poker session...
...Thief of Bagdad," is about as devilishly good as Lucifer, Jr. could be. His be-winged opponent in the contest over Little Joe's destination after death, the Laws's General himself, is sung and acted, with the experienced touch of Todd Duncan. Little Joe, the wayward, crap-shooting husband of Petunia and object of the struggle between the Lawd and the Devil, is a happy-go-lucky masterpiece in the hands of Dooley Wilson. Katherine Dunhan heats up the atmosphere with every step as Georgia Brown, a Dixieland Danger who makes Little Joe forget the Devil. When...