Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DARK CLOUD?Thomas Boyd? Scribners ($2.00). Because the skipper used to lick him, Hugh Turner ran away from his ship at Quebec, got down to Detroit by river. He met a man named Durham who was a gambler and decent and who in his spare moments punched tickets on the Under- ground Railway, the Negroes' accommodation train. They made out pretty well together, keeping away from Federal officers, until one day a Southern gentleman shot Durham in a card game. After that Hugh shipped on the Bald Eagle with Captain Hargusson and went up and down the Mississippi. That...
...been prefaced by incidents in a South Sea dance hall and a Broadway cabaret, from which the greatest pleasure is derived when the cabaret burns down?but without the loss of the chief performer, Barbara La Marr. She plays the lady known as Lou, who runs away with the gambler Dan into the Klondike where her piano-playing husband, through a faked telegram, is supposed to have lest his beautiful trust in her. He follows her to the Yukon, and there he and Dan shoot it out) after he has first made calf-eyes over a piano solo. Of course...
...Widener Library whenever they go to the Reading Room merely for the animal satisfaction of pressing the buttons. This, at least, entails no pecuniary, loss--and better still, preserves one's morals intact. After all, the moral effect of gambling is very little understood. It is not that the gambler, losing his own fortune, borrows from his friends; nor that having won a large sum he hates to tear himself away. The unfortunate fact is that few gamblers can resist the enticements of fetish and superstition. Faith in luck, in signs, in systems replaces reason and sense and nothing, certainly...
Soon Selina has a chance to test what he says. For her father dies- he is, though she has never known it, a professional gambler-killed by a bullet that was intended for someone else. He leaves her two blue-white diamonds and an envelope containing...
...lucky gambler bet 30 ($1.70) on the first race at the Maisons-Lafitte track on Nov. 6, picking the winner of that and of the other five races, betting his accumulated winnings each time, he would have won 42,425,000,000 francs - more the entire banknote circulation France. The odds against the win ning horses were...