Word: dice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agnew Thompson Dice, Philadelphia & Reading...
...were Wag Cantor's losses. Newsstands displayed for $3 a pamphlet giving Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would provide a slow rising market with small volume, easy money. A broken sage was Charles Amos Dice, famed market student, who early in October published New Levels in the Stock Market, showing prices would fluctuate around the then current prices, never dropping below the Dow Jones average...
...Osceola, Ind., George Gulp and Harold Kirkpatrick each got 34 votes for town clerk & treasurer. They called upon a pair of dice to decide the will of the people. The dice chose Gulp...
...trading contains some elements of chance. . . . Elements of chance do not necessarily indicate gambling. . . . The throwing of dice, shooting of craps, the purchase of lottery tickets are all clearly gambling, for there is no element of skill or intelligence involved. Chance and skill enter into card playing, chance and knowledge into horse racing. . . . Purchase of lots in a new community is partly based on chance and partly on knowledge...
What takes them, or took them, to the little restaurant to see each other was a consuming desire to play with their money directly, on the turn of a card, the fall of dice. Between Central Park and 42nd Street, all around the little restaurant, is a forest of "broadminded" hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow...