Word: diced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nightclub in Louisiana, and I have some oil leases in Texas." Pressed, he did admit that his nightclub (the famed Beverly Club near New Orleans) had a "casino." There was a little gambling in the casino: "Just to make it clear, they play the roulette wheel and dice...
...Binaggio-Gargotta gang, a potent force in Jackson County's corrupt Democratic political machine, had also operated, said the grand jury, a Kansas City gambling ring which had grossed as much as $34,500,000 a year. Its gambling enterprises included dice and card games ($19 million), numbers racket ($3,500,000), bookmaking on horse racing, baseball, football ($12 million). Among the Binaggio-Gargotta partners in the biggest crap game in Kansas City, said the grand jury, were Jackson County's Superintendent of Buildings Robert S. Greene, at week's end still on the job, and Assistant...
...that drew the crowds in crushing throngs. They paid only bemused attention to the pink-painted Joshua tree (with gardenias hung from its limbs as presents for the ladies) and the big bar with a nude painting that lighted every hour on the hour. They jammed about the five dice tables, three roulette wheels and four "21" tables. The house had some fevered moments-gamblers from the competing Flamingo took a whirl at breaking the bank, but left in disgust, $60,000 losers. Movie Star Bud Abbott sat at a "21" table for two hours, finally got up with...
Mahogany Shaker. They spun old-fashioned spinning wheels, fondled tomahawks and dueling pistols, peered through a telescope (see cut) carried by Lewis & Clark on the exploration up the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. They even shook dice in a gleaming mahogany shaker from a palatial riverboat of the 1880s, the Grand Republic. As the children examined the trophies, two of Van Ravenswaay's museum staffers gave them a running account of the frontier history the objects represented...
...tested were given cards on which poker hands were listed, such as "four of a kind." The cards also told them how much money they could win by betting five cents and beating the listed hand with a roll of five dice...