Word: parlay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meringer said he planned to send his son William to college. In Baltimore, reporters discovered a grocery store proprietor named David Dusell who had won $3,400 and explained why he was not surprised at his good fortune: "Two years ago I won $5,700 at Bowie on a parlay ticket and in 1905 I won the same amount." In Marblehead, Mass. William H. Sweet, 61-year-old fisherman who had won $50,000, and looks like Calvin Coolidge, said he did not know what he would do with the money. Asked by a photographer to smile, Fisherman Sweet snarled...