Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already portly bartender of Denver's brand new Windsor Hotel was there to see the printer about a folio of World's Fair views he wanted to peddle on the crowded Midway. A swarthy young hellion happened in to see the same printer. This youth was a professional gambler who had played the Mississippi River boats for all they were worth and only lately slipped out of Kansas City, Kan., after the highly profitable operation of a Little Louisiana Lottery. The two men introduced themselves and went off for lunch together. Great exploits were in the air. Neither...
...gambler, whose olive mien was a little too sleek to inspire trust at once, was enchanted by this garrulous bartender, whose words and wit were of an unusual facility. He liked the combination of heartiness and sly insinuation, and furthermore Tammen was one of those creatures so awe-inspiring to high-livers, a bartender who despised drink. The gambler took a chance and told his own history...
...punchboards referred to are lotteries conducted in drug stores, candy shops, shoe-parlors. The gambler, after paying a fee, punches a numbered slip of paper out of its cell in a square honeycomb. The right number wins a prize. Among the prizes obtainable by school-attending minors were, allegedly, revolvers...
...Jones '30 Harlequin G. B. Bingham '28 H. Dotmore R. C. Darling '29 Sgnarello K. A. Perry '28 King Edward Massey '15 Stranger D. W. Moreland '28 Captain G. S. Lowenstein First Venetian Abbot Perterson Jr. '30 Second Venetian P. C. Sherbert '30 Third Venetian Charles Leatherbee '20 Soldier, Gambler G. W. Harrington '30 Doctor Pierrot E. T. Bradley '29 Ambassador D. L. Dickson '27 Dancer William Wilson '15 Princess, Flaminia Mary Caperton Queen Margaret Effinger Clarice Helen Field Violetta Mary Leonard Isabella Rhodita Edwards Princess Marion Isaacs Emeraldina Mary Sands...
...Harlequin Barry Bingham '28 H. Dottore R. C. Darling '29 Sganerello K. A. Perry '28 King G. K. Bishop '27 Stranger D. W. Moreland '28 Captain G. S. Loewenstein '28 First Venetian Abbott Peterson Jr. '30 Second Venetian Charles Leatherbee '29 Third Venetian P. C. Sherbert '30 Soldier, Gambler R. N. Bennett '28 Priest G. W. Harrington '30 Ambassador D. L. Dickson '27 Princess Mary Caperton Fata M. Margaret Effinger Clarice Helen Field Violetta Mary Leonard...