Word: loser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week by an irate Chicago matron in behalf of her son-in-law. Paragraph No. 330 (enacted in 1817) of Illinois' Criminal Code sets forth that: 1) any person losing $10 or more gambling in Illinois can sue the winner and recover his money; 2) if a loser does not sue within six months, "any person" can sue the winner for three times the loser's losses, the county taking one-half of the sum recovered. Last week's suit, brought by a Mrs. Libbie Maxwell against "Big Bill" Johnson & four associates, declared that...
...Nellie arrived at the same time. Unable to make up his mind, Judson permitted both to keep house and cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady who may be the loser," said Philip, "I am 44 years of age and would be interested in a decent person. ..." This week Judson chose May, Nellie went home, Philip got neither. Reason: Philip was already married...
After eight hours of shooting, interspersed with visits to a nearby Bierstuben, 62-year-old Herman Mehner, bald-headed iron worker, was crowned king. Unique even in its distribution of prizes, Vogelschiessen winner is really a loser. In addition to filling the ten-beer boot, King Mehner, like his predecessors, was compelled to give a banquet for all the members of the Verein...
...utilities through such projects as TVA and Bonneville Dam; 2) abolition of all except geographically integrated utility pyramids, which is a main feature of the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Result has been the bitterest of all the battles between Franklin Roosevelt and Big Business and the loser has been the nation: instead of spending their normal $700,000,000 a year in expansion and replacement, the utilities have been getting along on $130,000,000. When renewed Depression jabbed this point home to the President last fall there was a sudden splash of headlines about a utility truce...
...year before are then regarded as men and started along a definite path of training from which there can be no turning back. Both the administration and goal of this training should be continually open to student consideration, for he is to be either the beneficiary or the loser...