Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreed to a quiet game, he found they had hired a hall and invited 300 cinema stars to watch the "world's championship." Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals. Best bridging Marx is Zeppo, best gambler Chico. All play a good bargaining game...
...odor of the stockmarket on Father Coughlin's cloth was quickly counteracted by the odor of gunpowder after the bombing. From a "gambler" he changed suddenly into a "martyr." He moved from his damaged cottage into his striking Charity Crucifixion Tower, remained incommunicado save to announce that he would soon reply to his "enemies." Sunday, with vibrant voice, he addressed once more the ten million. Defending his right to speak of financial matters, he renewed his denunciations of "crap-shooting bank affiliates and their hideout holding companies" which he had charged were formed to evade paying double liability...
...everyone in Denver mourned. But everyone in Denver and the Rocky Mountain States had something to talk about in the death of the amazing Bonfils, the "Desperate Desmond" of Western journalism, the swaggering, handsome gambler who blew into town after the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 with the Hotel Windsor's amiable bartender, Harry H. Tammen; who rode to power astride the Denver Post which he imbued with his own traits of boldness, flamboyance, unscrupulousness...
...journalistic ambition, but because they sought an instrument for power, Bonfils & Tammen bought the doddering Post for $12,500, imported Hearstlings, doctors of yellow journalism, to rake the town for scandal, dish it up in dripping, juicy gobs. As it had for Hearst, the formula worked richly for Gambler Bonfils & Bartender Tammen...
Hard to Handle (Warner). In his recent expositions of modern careers of danger & daring, James Cagney has been a gangster, gambler, taxidriver, auto-racer and sneak-thief, all with perfect Brooklyn-Irish sangfroid. In Hard to Handle he is a flip, beady-eyed, irresponsible publicist, as unlike Ivy Lee, to whom he compares himself, as possible. When he promotes a marathon dance he falls in love with one of the contestants (Mary Brian) and has to run away from her mother (Ruth Donnelly) when his partner steals the prize money. Disaster, as usual, encourages Cagney. He promotes a treasure hunt...