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...down the Kossuth revolution of 1848. Once he was the intimate adviser of the ill-fated Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary (1915-1918), and he is the present owner of the famed Eleventh Century castle at Saros-Patak. He is well known as "the most notorious titled gambler in Budapest," and is an avowed Fascist champion of the Archduke Albrecht as King of Hungary. The French detectives ferreted into his affairs excitedly...
...Alloway, Acting Superintendent of the mission in the absence of Reformed Gambler Callahan, rushed forth and peered at the signs through his tortoise-shell glasses...
...When foreigners invested in Russia's mines and vast untapped resources, it was because their profits were greater than those to be derived at home. They were therefore speculating, and must stand their losses as a speculator or a gambler does...
...keeper from Jamaica and sailed away with her husband. Released at last Dyle joined the Zouaves and shortly he too was transferred to Jamaica. There he cut a sumptuous figure. He was the best man in Port Royal and in much demand at weddings. He was a most successful gambler, for he had a way with the dice and cards as well as with women. And if he was no end of trouble to his captain, he was none the less cock of the walk in the Negro quarter...
...faintly sour stench that rises from a trunkful of athletic gear that has been shut up a long time. But everyone remembers, if reluctantly, the baseball scandal of 1919, when certain players of the Chicago "Black Sox" were found with big wads of money under their pillows which a gambler had paid them to "throw" the World's Series. The gambler is now a respected Realtor, but those players ? athletes, as fast and heady as ever spit on a bat ? were ousted from organized baseball. One of them was Buck Weaver, a third-baseman; another" was first-bagger...