Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What takes them, or took them, to the little restaurant to see each other was a consuming desire to play with their money directly, on the turn of a card, the fall of dice. Between Central Park and 42nd Street, all around the little restaurant, is a forest of "broadminded" hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow...
...evening in late September there was a stud-poker and high-spade game in the apartment of one James Meehan. It lasted 24 hours. Meehan did not play, but received a percentage for the use of his premises. The players were Arnold Rothstein; George McManus, brother of a Manhattan police Lieutenant, Meyer Boston, shrewd Manhattan "operator"; Edward C. ("Titanic") Thompson, Chicago plunger; "Nigger Nate" Raymond, San Francisco sport; and a few lesser figures. Raymond was the big winner and a slick-looking fellow called "Tough Willie" McCabe, onetime Chicago beer-legger, was supposed to have a half interest...
Sixteen of the younger, unmarried teachers live in the hall, not at all as proctors, but rather as students in more advanced lines of work. These men apply for rooms just as the incipient doctors do; they eat and play and study with the other members of the "house...
Where the bean and codfish play...
...touch football game scheduled for yesterday afternoon between Delta Upsilon, college champion of Brown University and Sigma Alpha Mu Harvard champions, has been postponed indefinitely. According to A. W. Samborski 1G, director of intramural athletics, several members of both teams were unable to play because of leaving early for home...