Word: diced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee exclaimed that he "had no chance whatever of receiving a fair and impartial hearing from representatives of as unprincipled a bunch of pirates-Herbert Fleishhacker, Harry Chandler. Robert Dollar, Frederick Koster and William Crocker-as ever scuttled a ship." that against him "the cards were stacked and the dice loaded...
...dramatically to his prime suggestion. "Buying and selling stock on the market is gambling pure and simple. The only difference between that and outright gambling is that . . . you don't see the cards, you don't see the wheel go round, you don't see the dice roll. Why not a grand national lottery in which the Government can cut the kitty...
Died. Agnew Thomson Dice, 69, president of Reading Co. (railroad); of heart disease while returning from the theatre with his wife aboard a street car; in Philadelphia. Self-made, he obtained his first job (flagman of a section gang) from the late President Rea of Pennsylvania R. R., then a track supervisor. He joined the Reading in 1897, became president in 1918. White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone is his nephew...
...they considered themselves invincible. Typical escapade: When Shadow nearly won the reading competition by a dramatic recital of Poe's "The Telltale Heart" Sleepy stole the show by surreptitious drumbeating, by launching a large heart-shaped balloon at the climax. But Author Wertenbaker does not always load the dice in favor of his heroes: the victory as often as not is with Mr. Peyton, only slightly-idealized figure of a good headmaster. Before They Were Men does not pretend to tell the whole truth about a boys' school; but it tells a part of it very pleasantly...
...seasoned voyager, last week S. S. Majestic saw strange sights. She was placed on the "New York to Nowhere" route for a 26-hr, cruise. All was shipshape until 3 a. m. when the atmosphere in the bar became thoroughly drunken. Rowdies, angry at not being allowed to roll dice on the main deck, started to heave potted plants, get agitated. "Gimme two rods and I'll clean the place out" cried one voice to the horror of the stewards. The scene did not become quiet until eleven RKO girls and their social advisers came in, only to scurry...