Word: croupiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know where to begin." If it failed to make him sad, the narrator continues, the incident at least enabled him to form an opinion of life. It was a low opinion, but subsequent events did nothing to change it. He became successively a bellhop, an elevator boy, a croupier, a soldier, a jewel thief, a card sharp. Women came and went: the countess in the hotel at Monte Carlo, a beautiful blonde burglar, the wife who won consistently at roulette until he married her, then lost just as steadily. (During the course of his tale, an old lady enters...
...dropped him on a flat, glass wheel. Frightened, the mouse started to sprint. The wheel spun. When it began to slow down, the mouse sought shelter in one of the 56 glass cages, each marked with a playing card. This time he darted beneath the jack of clubs. The croupier scooped up the chips, paid 50 to 1 on straight bets on the jack...
...fresh one. But the spectators got so excited over the mouse's antics that they forgot to place their bets regularly. Manager Smith, annoyed, swore: "There will never be another mouse game in this club." During the tryout one frightened mouse escaped. Another, indifferent to the croupier's threats and pleadings, made for the centre of the wheel, where he sat down, unabashedly licked himself from head to tail...
...moralists has been the increase, during the past three years, of petty gambling-bingo games and the like-under church auspices (TIME. Dec. 27, et ante). Whether or not they consider gaming sinful in itself, high-minded churchmen hold that the church bemeans herself by acting as croupier. Yet out of more than 200 U. S. Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops-the most articulate shepherds of their flocks-not more than half-a-dozen in each church have spoken out against bingo games. Joining this minority last week. New York's austere Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning threw...
...supreme croupier is a state such as Mexico, which has just calmly raked in by expropriation $400,000,000 worth of oil properties owned by U. S. and British citizens (TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...