Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporting the threat of suit by Mr. Thomas Taggart of French Lick, Ind., against Novelist Edna Ferber for the implication in her book Show Boat that he was a gambler, TIME stated erroneously that Miss Ferber was sued in 1922 by her "onetime Chicago Landlady" for allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...
Last week able Jeffersonian Taggart could not decide whether or not to sue. Onetime waiter and still professional politician, yes; professional gambler, no. So he sat on his Indiana front porch, rocked...
...asked him for a likeness this was the one he gave her, signed, in all cases, with love, Pietro Mascagni. It is not difficult to see why he liked this photograph; in it he saw himself for the first time as what he had always wanted to be-a gambler...
...businessman - many had that - but as a substantial patron of the drama. Perhaps he recalled, as he passed the Masonic Temple, how 20 years past he had endeavored to bring Hamlet and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray to Wyoming by building the Capitol Avenue House. It had burned, although Gentleman Gambler "Old Tom" Heany had for a time made a very respectable gambling house from the remains. Senator Warren passed the red-brick schoolhouse, the Elks Club house, bumped bustling Babbitts, paused before the skeleton of an impressive modern building - his new theatre, which will open this winter. Manhattan producers...
Born to the West (Jack Holt). It seems there was a pure sweet girl on the eve of a forced marriage with a wicked gambler of the west. In rode Jack Holt from the silent hills and smashed the horrid plot. Dance halls, handsome horses, and mountain grandeur are all there. Old style, perhaps, but good enough...