Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...
...individualistic enterprise, with a few "bookers" operating small strings of "houses" (apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known as "Lucky Luciano" or "Charlie Lucky,"summoned the bondsmen to conference in a Lower East Side restaurant. After a few words with a lieutenant named "Little Davie" Betillo, he turned to the conferees, barked: "You guys are through. I'm giving the business to Little Davie...
...Jean Arthur) who writes detective stories has a habit of dragging her surgeon-husband (William Powell; into real-life murder mysteries. When they are divorced she tries to get him back by entangling him in still another mystery, involving the murders of a jockey, a trainer and a crooked gambler...
Died. Jean ("Young Cupid") Patou 47, onetime No. 1 French couturier and style dictator; of an apoplectic stroke; in Paris. A gambler and master showman, who died in poverty, he was the first Paris designer to use U. S. mannequins, in 1923 first re-introduced the long skirt...
...Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans of all nationalities (except the Serbs) from a desire for war, says: "The bringers of evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters of Zeus. They were a select company whose names stood at the foot of government decrees, in the official calendars, in the diplomatic sections of the Almanack de Gotha, in the Army Lists, the world's Press lists...