Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Gambles (Paramount) gets off to a shocking start with a handsomely photographed sequence showing Barbara Stanwyck taking a brutal beating in a murky underground passage. Barbara's crap-shooting friends have just caught her with a pair of loaded dice...
Hearth & Home. In Hollywood, Mrs. Catharine Gretchen Lombardo, suing for divorce, charged that her husband spent hours teaching their four-year-old daughter to shoot dice. In Newark, N.J., Mrs. Martha Giles got a divorce after testifying that her husband hit her with a live eel. In St. Louis, Mrs. Brigitte Fitzpatrick, wife of-a psychologist, won her divorce after testifying that her husband kept analyzing her in front of their friends...
...Army Recruits Clarence R. Hill and George R. Jones had an ungovernable weakness for dice, whisky and buxom frauleins. After three years of service they held the Army's lowliest rank. When they returned to their company in December after their latest trip over the hill (the second AWOL for Hill, the fourth for Jones), their commanding officer clamped them under quarters arrest at Straubing, Bavaria. Incensed at such unfeeling treatment, they broke out and vanished again. This time they had higher adventure and deeper trouble than they bargained...
...chair for it, but business was fine otherwise. According to the best estimates, they stole and still steal $50 million a year in cargoes, mostly in broad daylight (shipping men politely called it pilferage). They pad stevedoring payrolls. They shake down truckers and they turn loose their bookies, loaded-dice men, six-forfive boys, and kickback collectors on the dock-wallopers for nobody knows how many more millions. Proud to Know Ya. The cops, some how, have never bothered them too much. The "hoods" get along fine with Joe Ryan, the loudmouthed lifetime boss (at$20,000 a year...
Ceresol and his assistant planned to spend a week studying "the new dignity of modern gambling"-and Nevada's odds. With a movie camera and a tape recorder, they took down the patter and actions around dice tables, hoped to use it to teach Monte Carlo's croupiers to talk and act like those in Nevada. Ceresol had his doubts that fast and reckless craps would ever appeal to the dignified European gambler. For that matter, Monte Carlo's rules would not be too appealing to Americans. Said Ceresol: "We will take back your game...