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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father of craps was the English game of hazard, which is of considerable antiquity. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a specific mention of hazard as early as 1300, and say: that according to William of Tyre, who died in 1190, the game was invented by English crusaders at the siege of an Arabian castle called Hazart, or Asart. Hazard is virtually obsolete now, but was extensively played in the U. S. as late as the early 1890s...
...third volume of the Mathématiques group of the Encyclopeédic Méthodiqué, dates 1792. Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs. It is so defined in every French dictionary to which I have had access, including the Dictionnaire Analogique de la Langue Française, and the Dictionnaire Général de la Langue Française...
...Dapper little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard of the Scripps-Howard chainpapers, fresh home from interviewing bigwigs all over Europe, declared that the greatest menace in Europe was the possibility that the French and English people would finally say: "Dear God, if we've got to fight this war, let's do it and get it over with. . . . Too much emotionalism and too little realism are being evidenced in the U. S. toward the entire European situation...
...Trent, head of the great Boots drugstore chain), one a diplomat (Sir Auckland Geddes, Ambassador to Washington, 1920-24), one a labor specialist (Harold Butler, former Director of the International Labor Office, Geneva). Five have had long Government experience, six saw active War duty. One makes the paper for English bank notes. One has an inferiority complex. One is stone-deaf, uses a mechanical ear and when seated by some one he dislikes, shuts...
From 1892 to 1928 "Copey" taught English at Harvard. Famed for his courses in English composition, he has influenced many graduates in their literary careers. He has written several books, two of which, the "Copeland Reader" and the "Copeland Translations" have been deemed most valuable contributions to American letters...