Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shelby on the afternoon of July 4. Shelby is populated by slightly less than 1,000 persons and is seldom dignified by mention on the map. Montana promotors have guaranteed the champion $300,000, nearly $700 a minute, for his part in the ceremonies. Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts...
Shunned by gambler, and mutilated by superstitionist, the $2 bill must go. Such, at least, is the recommendation of Secretary Mellon's special Treasury Committee on Currency Revision. The reason given is protection against bill "raisers...
Proctor, the professional gambler and scientific poker player, made it a rule never to "come in" on less than "three of a kind", except very occasionally on a deliberate bluff. This "great American pastime" has been compared to politics, but incidents in which an opponent has been scared off are very rare indeed, and, needless to say, have never occurred in a presidential election. As matters now stand, political gamesters of both parties are admitting that the Republicans have a disadvantage, because they are not in a position to win on a bluff. And in a "show-down...
...Continent that a majority of the shares in the Casino are in the hands of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the mysterious European banker, whose millions are legion, and who has, it is reported, financed Emperors and Kings, wars and rebellions. The next largest shareholder is Gregory Vagliano, adventurer and gambler. On the night of March 12 of this year at the Sporting Club he-won 2,000,000 francs, the bulk of which was so great that it had to be carried to his hotel by Casino porters in ten waste paper baskets crammed to the limit of their capacity...
...fourth place, through the Grain Futures bill the agricultural group has tried to enable the farmer to cut out the commission man and the middle man, the warehouse man, the grain gambler, the curb broker. These men have always shown themselves more interested the welfare of themselves than in the producer...