Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses in the country," stroke by stroke, over their meals, to be enthusiastic. What though Von Elm, Jess Sweetser, Guilford, Mackensie and the rest had come to compete in the National Amateur? The waiters asked questions about the Shenandoah (See Page 31); they interested themselves in the acrobatics of dice and the scores of distant baseball teams...
...wink and scamper of dice . . . the flicker of honed steel . . the thud of fists . . . the pumping of great black legs. Is this all that Negro gentlemen know of sport ? Last week, those dolts who ha.ve derived their views on the colored race from the stale gags of minstrel shows were amazed to discover that at Westfield, N. J., there is a Negro golf club-the Shady Rest Country Club. Broad piazzas it has, sofas, rocking-chairs, lounges, loggias, beds, in which a tired golfer-or one who may in the future play golf-can catch 40 winks...
...save their faces, everybody supposed the Aventines would vote at their caucus to end their political abstention in view of the reopening of Parliament. Not so. The Deputies voted continuance of the boycott. Many of them demurred. Deputy Dice Sarò, one of the leaders, resigned. Others were expected to return to the Chamber in defiance of the majority...
...inevitable dice...
...corn, corncobs, squash seeds and beans indicated that the people had practiced dry farming at a time when the region was not as arid as it now is. There were also bones of deer, mountain sheep and rabbits, remains of fibre garments and garments of twisted leather, the inevitable dice, beads of turquoise and shell. The pottery, white or light-colored with black designs, was made without potters' wheels. There were chipped stone implements. The living chambers of the houses uncovered were small - only about six by eight feet, a contrast to the large communal houses of the later...