Word: faro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They looked so sad that he went in anyhow. No story. The guy was just another guy, name of Faro Mannino, age 25. Same with the dame. She was Eleanor Mannino, age 21. They were sore because they had gotten a divorce last December. They were sitting on opposite sides of the room, waiting to see the judge about the dame getting more money for their baby. Giese had seen a zillion like them. But he decided to give them the benefit of some good advice...
...methods he once observed: "I go along, ask no quarter, and doIt't give any." Died. Achmed Abdullah, 64, bemono-cled fictioneer `Who gathered material for his intrigue-filled potboilers by living a fiction-like life - working simultaneously as a Turkish cavalryman and a British secret agent, dealing faro in Nevada, play ing poker for a cap and gloves during a 50-below-zero Tibetan blizzard ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...bullion tax" on net proceeds since 1864, gambling has never been taxed (except for a license). But this spring legislators wrote a bill calling for a 10% income tax on gambling's gross profits. The proposal stirred up as much argument as a counterfeit bill at a faro table...
Belle called her illegitimate child Pearl Younger. She left the child with her parents, went to Dallas where she performed in dance halls, made money dealing faro, bought fancy clothes and saddles...