Word: gamer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany-Italy were one country and if it should attack Poland-then any amateur war-gamer would know what Britain-France must do. Britain-France must destroy Italy. Thus they would deliver a shattering wound to Germany-Italy, become masters of the Mediterranean from end to end and able to bring help to Poland and to the entire Eastern Front...
...Constitution its article against gambling. Though they were voluble concerning the moral aspects of gambling, the ministers were unable to explain why gambling, any more than prostitution, should be specifically unconstitutional. Roman Catholics kept mum. Their tidy attitude on this question is that gambling is licit if: 1) the gamer owns and can afford to lose what he wagers; 2) he acts of his own free will; 3) there is no fraud; 4) there is equality among the parties to the game. By no means all bingo games or lotteries fulfill these conditions...
...parish house, lodge or theatre, run a Bingo party on a percentage basis. Though the Bishop of Albany frowned upon Bingo simply because it is scandalous, his fellow bishops technically are under no obligation to do so. Catholic theologians have decided that gaming is licit provided 1) the gamer owns and is at liberty to use what he wagers; 2) he acts of his free will; 3) there is no fraud; 4) there is equality between the parties to the game. Nevertheless gambling has been denounced by saints, church councils, Popes.* Of gambling, the Catholic Encyclopedia remarks: "If indulged...
...Gamer: I'd wait and see which American...
...should head what in the next House. Congressman John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut, last year's Floor Leader, and Bertrand H. Snell of New York, Rules Committee chairman, struggled for the empty honor of being nominated by the G. 0. P. for Speaker and then defeated by Democrat Gamer. Cheesemaker Snell, hard-boiled and reactionary when the Republicans are in complete control, went about last week conciliating and winning over Progressive votes to his candidacy with oversized promises of liberalizing the House rules. After eight ballots in a party caucus he won the Speakership nomination which meant he would...