Word: farren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither team was able to produce a scoring threat. Dartmouth fell on Farren Wylie's fumble on the Crimson 17 as the second quarter opened, but Harvard recovered on the very next play. Later in the same period, the Indians started a drive from their own 31 which petered out on the Harvard 8. The losers' had a 60-yard touchdown run in the third period nullified for offside...
With the connivance of Chinese munici pal authorities, Riley went in for really big-time gambling, joined forces with an Austrian refugee named Joe Farren to open a big, expensive roulette room in Farren's nightclub on the edge of the French Concession. Shanghai had not had an open roulette game since 1927, and the taipans and their wives and ladies jostled puppet Government officials and their concubines in their eagerness to drop their money on Riley's tables...
Every side of Shanghai's life breathed collapse. Automobiles, refrigerators, even baby carriages swamped the market as evacuees disposed of everything which could not be hastily packed up and carted off. The roulette tables at Joe Farren's, the Park Hotel's Sky Terrace. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon's Tower Night Club had none of their old sparkle. Gangsters who had plundered weapons from dead soldiers on nearby battlefields turned Shanghai into a Little Sicily. With rice and coal under Japanese control, the bodies of starved Chinese were picked up in the streets by hundreds...