Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used, and each player who believes that the cards dealt him may possibly win, places one or more of these counters in the centre of the table in a pile, which is called the "pot." Those who do this are then privileged (but not required) to call on the dealer for from one to five cards more, after having discarded an equal number. All hold their cards concealed. The player at the dealer's left then places a stake in the pot. In clockwise order, according to the value which they set by their cards, the players in order...
...Cleveland there are two evening newspapers, the Press, the News; two morning newspapers, the Plain Dealer and the Times. Both evening sheets are frankly "low-brow"-slangy, sensational, filled with flashy pictures, trashy fiction, much given to noisy circulation "stunts" and blatantly advertised "reforms." The Press is a Scripps-Howard paper and hence more or less euphemistic as to sex matters and equipped with an able science department; the News has a column by always-readable Arthur Brisbane. Otherwise there is little to choose between them...
...morning field, the Plain Dealer has an accidental monopoly. When the Times was founded four years ago (as the Commercial) many a Plain Dealer reader might have switched his subscription, for two reasons: 1) Natural dislike of monopoly; 2) The Plain Dealer's quiescent editorial policy. The Plain Dealer is Democratic but not vigorously so. Its policy has been one of polite self-seeking. But though the Times addressed itself to the conservative, whitecollar, banker-and-his-clients among the Plain Dealer following, it soon turned out to be just a nice little paper with the right idea...
...Sold to Mr. Ringling," said an art dealer in a low tone to an assistant, who wrote "John Ringling" on a slip of paper and attached the slip to a painting by Emile van Marcke, showing masses of sturdy cattle in a meadow. Again and again through the afternoon on the second day of the sale of the paintings and furnishings of the Astor residence, 840 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, the name of Mr. Ringling was repeated. More than a hundred Astor pictures were sold in two days (for a total of $35,295) and John Ringling bought a great many...
Buick. Optimistic of the future, the Buick Motor Co. is stretching to a monthly program of 30,000 cars; already it reached 25,000 in March, and for the first ten days of April produced 9,639. Dealer stocks are kept...