Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper and telegraphic firespittings of Peary. ... If Dr. Cook had not found the North Pole, he thought so and has shown as much, if not more, proof that he did reach it than ever did Peary. The very fact that he has been handed the hot end of a poker ever since should induce you to be eminently fair in your investigations and statements in the future. The bald fact that the government of Denmark has never withdrawn its medal and degree given to Dr. Cook but has withdrawn, if I am not wrongly informed, its endorsements of Peary...
...Allan Jenkins, who, in a touching scene, refuse to leave Al. In the healing air of Maine he recovers his voice, and stays to fall in love with little Miss Sybil Jason and her aunt. Miss Jason is the Warner Brother's stack of chips in the child actress poker game. She is not as pretty as Shirley Temple, nor as pleasantly ugly as Jane Withers, but her singing talents may carry her farther than either...
...Milwaukee, a round of draw poker ended with four players showing respectively a straight, a diamond flush, a full house of aces over jacks and four kings. The lone kibitzer, Joseph J. Petran, 55. fell dead...
...stirred Emil Hurja at all. He calculates political pressure, not by the daily surge of press headlines, but by a dispassionate dipping into public sentiment far from the source of the immediate excitement. When Mr. Hurja looks in his black book, holding it close to his vest like a poker player, and says in a flat voice, "Roosevelt can lick Talmadge 4-to-1 in Florida," or "There is not a single Republican candidate who can carry his own state against Roosevelt," he is apt to be believed by non-partisan visitors...
...Coast smartshop chain. Her daily routine includes a drive down the "Peninsula" in her Packard limousine, lunch at a Burlingame restaurant, a brief visit at the main store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous cake.* This April Matriarch Magnin will have a particularly happy birthday: in its 1935 annual report published last week, Magnin's showed sales...