Word: fer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, the finishing touches had been made. Artists had just put the last bright reds and yellows to the 25-ft. mural showing a Puerto Rican feast-day celebration; roulette wheels, chemin de fer and dice tables had been moved into the casino. The blue-tiled swimming pool cut out of the coral rock and the bright yellow-awninged beach cabanas were all ready for the first guests...
...French fleas?" came the equally chill voice of the publicity man for the French Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer. "Has some new method, then, been discovered for establishing the paternity of a flea? Do these fleas, perhaps, speak with a French accent? To speak of French fleas? Monsieur, is that not going, quite possibly...
...Cannes, Columnist Elsa Maxwell helped Producer Jack Warner clean up at chemin de fer. "I was sitting . . . by his side . . . and I started to move," wrote Elsa. "He showed the only signs of superstition I've ever seen in him. 'Don't uncross your legs, honey,' Jack warned." She said she stuck it out for an hour and Jack won a million francs...
...figures he can make a trade, a strictly no cash deal, before the season opens. Dis C1878 guy sez Yale gotta football player name a Wayne Johnson a couple a years ago from Harvard. Maybe he wants a trade a scholar, one of them chemistry fellas fer instance, fer a new fullback...
There were still some hurdles for Fer-jencik to take. Kempny and Bugar could not be jailed until they were stripped of parliamentary immunity. This Ferjencik called upon the National Coalition to do. The Communist coalition members could be counted on to agree. The non-Communist majority in the Government was up a tree. If they gave in, they would play into Communist hands. If they did not, they would precipitate a political split which would help nobody but the Communists...