Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court, said: "John Duvall isn't the first Indianapolis man made to stand and defend himself solely because he was unfortunate enough to run and be elected to office." The charges against unfortunate John Duvall had included his acceptance of $14,500 from one William H. Armitage, gambler, saloonist and politician, in return for the privilege of naming three city officials. This privilege Mr. Duvall was said to have revoked later when he found it conflicted with similar privileges he had promised Ku Klux Klanners for certain considerations...
...three cases considered in Conflicts are 1) the actions of a high-minded English widow when she found that the only way she could save a young gambler from suicide was to let him believe her a prostitute; 2) the suppressed tragedy of a wealthy bourgeois whose sufferings from gallstones was eclipsed by circumstantial evidence that his young daughter was promiscuous; 3) the tragedy of sex perversion in a brilliant professor, as climaxed and discovered by his most ardent disciple...
Arthur Potter is a wader, diver, gambler. He earns his living wading and diving for golf balls that inefficient golfers plop into water hazards at the Marine & Field Club, Brooklyn. He picks up dollars from unsuspecting golfers passing by, by suggesting that he can drive a certain narrow green nearly 300 yards away. Unsuspecting golfers doubt it. "Betcha," says Gambler Potter. "Betcha," answer unsuspecting, greedy golfers. Potter drives the green...
...gets away with what he can while he can? but making a noise like a loose-tongued woman who is losing her reputation and tries to regain it at the expense of her neighbor's? the Denver Posts, morning and evening phenomena published by Fred G. Bonfils, onetime river gambler and circus promoter, last week furnished their niche in the Rocky Mountains with as ingenious a piece of journalism as ever misled simple citizens...
Denver, ridden by a newspaper war between Gambler-Publisher Fred G. Bonfils with a morning and evening Post and the Scripps-Howard syndicate with a morning and evening News (TIME, Feb. 14), continued in its crazy aspect of wildcat frontier town. Last week the Post's frantic efforts for circulation included: A spectacle to signalize the Denver auto show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world...