Word: dice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no specification as to dice, poker chips etc.-possibly the dear old friend did not know that one could gamble with anything but cards...
...condensed form, the letter said: Buddhism in Tibet, its ancient stronghold, has become a depraved Shamanistic religion. The celebrated Tashi Lumpo monastery, residence of the abdicated Tashi Lama, has been deserted and desecrated. Lamas, teachers of the people, tell fortunes for alms, by the haunches of mutton, or dice; they beg and cheat; to mystify the ignorant, they mutter squeaky conjurations or play with human bones. The forest-dwelling Buddhists revere arrows and absurd amulets. Conscious reverence for Buddha is held by very...
...Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...
President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan peered patiently at the caged mouse in his living room. It rummaged among the shavings for tidbits. It reared and looked Dr. Little in the eye. But it did not sing for him, as Professor Lee R. Dice had said it could. Professor Dice removed his mouse to his laboratory where it willingly trilled almost as chirpily as a canary and bred quite as prodigiously as any mouse. So that last week Professor Dice was able to exhibit a few of the descendants who likewise were trillers, apparently the Mendelian stock...
...they were dressed alike, with fascinating headbands, large earrings of gold, veils held in place by slender copper pins. Guardsmen stood at attention. In the offing was the great king's chariot, drawn by two asses. Grooms held the reins; another flunky was in attendance. Gaming boards with dice, copper bowls, tumblers, and other diversions awaited His Majesty. But he was nowhere to be seen. It did not matter for all these people had been dead since circa 3500 B. C. Their flesh and the wood of the harp and of the chariot had long ago rotted into nothingness...