Word: dice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reins of the city, Boss Long had Governor Allen appoint Long henchmen to the local Board of Tax Assessors, advised citizens to ignore the Walmsley board's assessments. Finally Boss Long prodded Governor Allen into a moral crusade against Mayor Walmsley, charging that his police had protected bawdy houses, dice games, other iniquities. As a final blow the Governor, early last week, declared "partial" martial law in New Orleans, marched in his guardsmen, seized the office of the local registrar of voters, "purged" the rolls of some 24,000 names which would undoubtedly "vote Walmsley" in the September primary...
...orphaned boys into Manhattan's East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim Wade (William Powell) is straight as a die, Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) is crooked as his own dice. Gallagher's sleek mistress (Myrna Loy) loves him honestly, leaves him when he refuses to make her an honest woman. In Harlem's Cotton Club she falls in love with District Attorney Wade, is soon married...
...small hope, no bigger than Hitler's hand, for the salvation of Western civilization. "There remains as a formative power only the warlike, 'Prussian' spirit-everywhere and not in Germany alone. . . . He whose sword compels victory here will be lord of the world. The dice are there ready for this stupendous game. Who dares to throw them...
...Sloan still had barrels of money. He spent it with enormous gusto on a Sheepshead Bay mansion, a yacht, roulette, dice, loud clothes, parties at Shanley's, Rector's, Delmonico's. In 1907 he married Musicomedienne Julia Sanderson who divorced him a year later. Most of his fortune vanished in Wall Street because he attempted to "play" along with the rich men for whom he had ridden...
...tosses should have plenty of trouble. Buckler is very, very fast, and he is the one whom the Crimson must stop if they want to make a real game out of it. All in all there seems to be a little too much confidence in the Army camp. The dice are loaded a bit too heavily, and John Harvard is about due to show some fight. By TIME...