Word: faro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of America's Christmas rush. In a financial sense, it wasn't much of a store-its owner, Walter Schnaare, had long since given up trying to make a living out of it and had gotten a job upriver at Cairo (rhymes with faro). But it was, nevertheless, a great institution in America-a club and forum, and a source for almost anything America's housewives had forgotten to pick up in the city stores. Mrs. Schnaare was glad to keep it open a few hours every day just as a community service...
...Lima last week two ministers, three charges d'affaires, and the ambassadors of Brazil, Spain, France, Ecuador, Colombia and Great Britain had met in solemn conclave. Before the dark backdrop of the tiny Association of Amateur Artists theater, dapper, grey-haired Brazilian Ambassador Luis Pereira Ferreira de Faro announced to a hushed audience the result of their deliberations. The diplomats, aided by local intellectuals and journalists, had selected luscious Peruvian Ana Maria Alvarez Calderon as Beauty Queen of All the Americas...
Charles James Fox. Short and fat, harsh-voiced defender of the colonists, haggard from dissipation, he lost so much money at faro that he had to borrow from the waiters at Brooks's to pay for his meals. When he walked the streets, moneylenders, tailors and haberdashers swarmed around him dunning him for their pay. After he lost his fortune he set himself up as a gambler in his own right, became wealthy, bought race horses and got a new mistress. The Prince of Wales campaigned for his re-election to Parliament, and traded mistresses with...
Last week, little (137 Ibs.) Ben Hogan showed up in Los Angeles (along with 170 others) to play in the U.S. Open. He seemed the coolest of the lot. As always, his face was as phlegmatic as an oldtime faro dealer's.* The long Riviera golf course was to his advantage. Although he insists that "There's no such thing as a course that fits a man's playing style," the boys called Riviera "Hogan's Alley." He had won two Los Angeles Opens there in the past two years...
...dodges as the floating crap game, enthusiastic University scholars have developed a scoresheet arrangement whereby Police interrogation leads only to a reply that heavy losers must pay back by making the beds of the winners. "A little trick I worked up in Prep school," chortled Ale Bell, pudgy faro dealer...