Word: dice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brokaw's backgammon dice rattled in their cup, fell out upon the table. He reached in his pocket, found $175 and a platinum watch, surrendered them. Then he, Mrs. Brokaw and Darby were herded into a bathroom at revolver's point. The personable young man ran lightly down the stairs and disappeared. He had not bothered with Mrs. Brokaw's jewels...
...such headlines as "SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY . . ." "HUMAN HASH" (topping the story of a railroad wreck); "ROAST MAN" (above a hotel fire story). Indeed, it now resorts to its own back files for material. But the advertisements have retained their old aroma: marked cards, "trick" dice, "vigor" tablets for men. Typical classified advertisement of last week: "For a lovely chummy pal. write Nan Bell, National Park, N. J. (Stamp, please...
...musical talents in New York. Mr. Kruger announces that he has accepted a commission in the medical corps, departs for a Southern cantonment, leaving his wife exposed to a handsome artillery officer who shares her taste for music. Several acts later, by an odd topple of Fate's dice. Mr. Kruger finds himself attempting to save the life of the artillery captain by whom, Mr. Kruger has just learned, his wife has had a baby. The artillerist dies. After the War is over Mr. Kruger, himself wounded, comes home and undergoes some rather genuine-looking torture while his wife...
Down went Stewart and the Franks over the dice. They prayed: "Come, Little Joe! [four...
...only mildly funny. The trouble is partly the interjection of an unnecessary lovestory, and partly that Bert Swor, who takes Moran's old part in the team, acts merely as a feeder to Mack. Best shot: X-ray of a stomach containing a pair of dice and a fishhook...