Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were indignant. Mr. Smith fulminated: "The spirit of American fair play will not tolerate any eleventh hour, unsportsmanlike attempt to change the rules after the game has started. This radical change sounds like a cry for the life preserver." Senator Carter Glass, red with rage, called the proposal "a gambler's trick," such a nomination "damaged goods." "The whole enterprise smacks of poor sportsmanship," declared James Middleton Cox. Newton Diehl Baker said such a nominee would have "a moral flaw to his title...
...production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it. Dennis King was new too as Ravenal, the gambler who marries Cap'n Andy's Magnolia (Norma Terris). Helen Morgan was back as the quadroon with her fluttering hands and hangdog look...
...lieu of the theatre admissions tax, Showman Brady had a variety of proposals: a 1? levy on all newspapers, a 5? excise on magazines weighing over a pound, radio and cruise-to-nowhere taxes. "Every American, so it is said, is a born gambler," he continued, leading up dramatically to his prime suggestion. "Buying and selling stock on the market is gambling pure and simple. The only difference between that and outright gambling is that . . . you don't see the cards, you don't see the wheel go round, you don't see the dice roll...
...Warner). Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize novel would have been a better picture if its story had been told in a manner more pictorial, less bookish. Yet it is the best cinema in which Barbara Stanwyck has appeared to date. She is Selina Peake, whose father, a Chicago gambler, gets shot in the course of business. He leaves her with an expensive education, no money, a belief that "life is so much velvet...
...Tyler, Tex., Alvin C. ("Titanic") Thompson, notorious gambler, alleged participant in the poker game which led to the murder of Arnold Rothstein, shot and killed one Jimmy Frederick, 16-year-old golf caddy who had attempted to hold...