Word: dice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elmers stopped streetcar service by camping in the middle of the tracks on busy Grand Boulevard. Elmers marched out into the middle of Lindell Boulevard, asked each other: "Who's got the dice?" threw down match boxes, bits of tin, Missouri's milk-bottle-top sales tax tokens, proceeded to roll the ivories and completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift...
...bare, dusty stage of Manhattan's Guild Theatre last week 75 Negroes sang, swayed, rolled their dice, exultantly prayed to "de Lawd." In the darkened pit lean Rouben Mamoulian, cinema director, tapped on an old-fashioned schoolteacher's bell, interrupted them constantly with "All right, children. . . ." His stage pictures grew steadily in beauty while the tempo of the acting rose to fever pitch...
...improving the breed of racehorses often seems only incidental to Saratoga's racing-season pastimes of dining & dancing at half a dozen night clubs, overdrinking in countless bars, recuperating with the dubious aid of mineral waters, betting on anything from the next race to three dice in a bird cage, horses are still the focus of the town's excitement. Last week, the feature race of the first day of the meet was the Flash, for two-year-olds...
...time he had served his sentence and been pardoned, the West was no longer wild enough for him. His second marriage turned out badly, and in a mysterious squabble in sinister old El Paso, Hardin, then an ambiguous small-town attorney, was killed by a deputy constable while rolling dice for drinks...
...hunts of pet buffalo calves. One of their games was to throw stones into the water, crying "icbirikyū' bābirikyū'p" so that the last syllable coincided exactly with the splash. Little Crow girls played house, enjoyed the women's game of shinny. Dice was also considered a woman's game. Gray- bull spoke of squaws who were always shooting dice with the impatient air of a white husband complaining about his wife's bridge...