Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section is enough to shame any Harvard man who has an ounce of sporting blood. We cheer only when we are personally excited by a good play, merely as an emotional outlet, and not with any idea of maintaining the morale of the team. We have become like a gambler in stocks whose support of a company is based only on its chances of increment, to be abandoned at any weakening...
Some events of the five-year period Author Sullivan has raked together: sinking of the Titanic, the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight, forced dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, electrocution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Halley's Comet, Ford jokes. Suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Evangelist Billy Sunday, the two-step, grizzly bear, bunny hug. Actress Lillian Russell, erection of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, nude "September Morn." dawn of psychoanalysis...
...hair shot with grey. He was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in 1876, the year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running a gambling hall, and Charles Victor Bob, engineer-promoter. His gambling halls grew so large that...
...story is fundamentally serious. The daughter of the owner of the Show Heat falls in love with a river gambler the dashing Gaylord Reveual playing opposite him in one of the Show Boat's melodramas, the role she would like in real life. Their marriage the alternate prosperity and poverty of a gambler's life, the disillusionment and the separation follow quickly. Still in love they meet on the old "Show Boat" many years after, as it lies against an old Mississippi wharf in the moonlight...
...early city's friendly and explosive vulgarity still pains finical Denverites in dark, slick Frederick Bonfils' incredibly blatant Denver Post. Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, in whose veins runs Latin blood (some say a Bonaparte strain from Corsica), still personifies Denver's oldtime dash and bravado. His late partner, H. H. Tammen, onetime bartender, personified its humor. To him is credited the inscription over the Post's door, "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place." The Post has said of Denver "Everything that comes out of the ground is just a little bit sweeter...