Word: dice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoople connoisseurs particularly admired Cartoonist Ahern's extravagant poolroom slang, in which slow race horses are called "turf turtles" or "land crabs," a crap game is described as a "few knuckles of dice...
...gone ashore by plane from the cutter with the news that his father was playing politics with his naval aide, Captain Wilson Brown, his military aide, Colonel Edwin M. Watson. The Press now wanted to know who had won. Franklin Roosevelt looked blank until someone explained they meant the dice-and-pin game called "Politics" (TIME...
Gaining fast but still behind Monopoly is Politics, a game in which each player is given $1,000,000 in scrip money to get himself elected President of the U. S. Three dice are rolled, the total on each roll entitling the player to stick colored pins in a big map of the U. S. Each State has an arbitrary seven counties, except a few in the East which have only four for lack of space on the map. Count is by electoral vote, and the importance of the State is roughly indicated by the number of dice points required...
...silver States. If a card advocates the "share-the-wealth" movement, the player has to pay all other candidates $10,000 while winning a few counties in the South, two in Wisconsin. After every State has at least one pin in it, a count is taken each time the dice show a pair or three of a kind. Unless some player has 266 electoral votes (a winning majority) the one with the lowest count is eliminated...
...down a good desk in the family textile firm of Galey & Lord. One of nine children, Oz Lord says he thought of Politics while taking a hot shower last spring. Other Lord ideas have been a foot ball game invented at the age of 12 (successful) and a backgammon dice duplicator (unsuccessful...