Word: croupiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted, 'There's my eleven!' grabbed her winnings and ran ... As she was disappearing, one croupier turned to the other and asked in a daze: 'Uh-did you see that eleven?' 'No,' said the other softly, his eyes still riveted on Ava's departing shape. 'Didn...
During the evening a change comes over his face. Eyebrows bristle to little points, bags appear under the eyes: there's a touch of the croupier in evening dress. The ball starts rolling...
...land-owning Italians and foreign tourists. Said San Marino's parish priest resignedly: "At first the parishioners thought the casino a scandal. Then they got used to it, for the price of furnished rooms began to rise considerably. There is hardly a family which does not have a croupier as a paying guest at 20 to 25,000 lire a month. My parishioners live up to the motto: 'Since you eat, why shouldn't I? Therefore let's all eat in the name of the Lord.' " Noisy Tenants. The Roman Catholic bishops of Rimini...
...dallied in the bars and casinos, chain-smoked cheap Gauloise cigarettes, treated hangers-on to champagne and caviar, played roulette for 10,000-franc chips ("His Majesty's losses," remarked a croupier, "befitted his rank"), sometimes conducted jazz bands, sent his secretary to open negotiations with the many women who caught his eye. ("My grandfather had 125 wives and 300 children," Bao Dai once remarked to a journalist. "I have a few mistresses. What then?") He played golf capably and bridge like a master. A crack shot with rifle or revolver, he often arranged target competitions with...