Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walking along by a hedge in the paddock about 150 yards away from me. He did not seem to be making any effort to take off his equipment and disguise himself as a British soldier so I thought he could not be a parachutist...
...result of the cleanup was to drive gamblers to nearby De Soto County, Miss. Tall, smooth Bob Berryman trekked to De Soto, opened the Paddock (dining, dancing, gambling). A rival house was the Shanty. Memphis newspapers reported the Paddock gambling; the De Soto sheriff said he had never heard of it. Last fortnight the Shanty was raided and closed; the Paddock was not bothered. Word went about that Bob Berryman had talked with the sheriff, but the sheriff denied it. A second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming...