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Word: parlays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional secrets of the widow racket. Among them: always be a gentleman-subordinate sex; send red roses, not orchids; always give the impression you have lots of money. "I'm a parlay player," said Engel. "I always made it a practice to spend on Mabel what I got from Jane . . . Don't forget that all these women were trying to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: DOWNFALL OF AN OLD SMOOTHIE | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Martin & Lewis got three offers from TV sponsors, turned them all down to wait for a sponsor who will parlay them on both radio & television. Even without sponsors, the team will earn close to $750,000 in 1949. But radio cannot show the half of what Martin & Lewis have; they must be seen, on television or in a nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...give him some control over the picture. He has thought about starring in a show next fall on Broadway, where he has $30,000 in a forthcoming revue. Next month he will start a daily 400-word syndicated column in more than 50 newspapers. He is getting ready to parlay his television winnings into a TV producing company, a TV school and, for tours of U.S. theaters, Milton Berle Television Units. In the long haul, he wants to produce and direct. Well fed at last, the great want still hungers for new conquests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Child Wonder | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

With the help of the best straight man in radio, Arnold Stang, Morgan manages to parlay his destructive parodies into an average of ten really excellent minutes of humor and twenty satisfactory ones every Sunday night...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...prodded him on to parlay their strike into a billion-dollar network of mines and banks that dominated the economy of Bolivia and reached into British and German smelters and Malayan mines. But even a Croesus' fortune could not get Simon into Cochabamba's exclusive Spaniards' Club Social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dowager Empress | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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