Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poker-faced, Diplomat Murray heard the unhappy oilmen out. After they left he dashed to Secretary Hull, who suggested that Standard Oil return at 3 p. m. Sharp at 3, the oilmen and Diplomat Murray were closeted with stiff, didactic Dr. Stanley Hornbeck, Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. Dr. Hornbeck soon went downstairs to tell Secretary Hull that Standard Oil had arrived, the actual introduction of Messrs. Walden & Dundas being made by Near East Chief Murray...
...Psychologist Spearman found the scores affected by a general factor which he called G. This G appeared to be an innate fund of mental energy, a sort of all-around cerebral handyman at the service of special endeavors and special abilities. Thus a person's proficiency at poker, for example, is the result of his G supply plus his special talent for poker. This becomes a simple equation...
...doings, but a God given talent." Nevin wrote a flimsy little Narcissus, later called it "nasty" but still thrilled to hear people whistle it in the streets. His most famed work, The Rosary, was written to a mawkish poem by a redoubtable California drinker and poker-player named Robert Cameron Rogers. Though The Rosary sold less than 100,000 copies from its publication in 1898 until its composer died, its total sales reached...
...accounts for nearly one-third'of Brown's business but its trade fame now rests on pulps. In 1924 its research chemist developed a highly-purified cellulose fibre used in the manufacture of yarns, fabrics, absorbents, fine papers and innumerable plastic products ranging from lighting fixtures to poker chips. The company itself manufactures finished products like yarns, conduits, shoe linings. A leader in forestry and reforestation, Brown Co. abandoned the last of its original lumber business...
...neither very rich nor very poor, work harder than their Negro help and run to rugged individualism. In that section is the drowsy market town of Dothan (pop.: 16,000) and the combustible newspaper family of Hall which won the Dothan Eagle three generations ago in a draw poker game. Slim, red-headed Editor Julian Hall, 33, is a first-rate newspaperman, an Alabama "character," a humorist of distinction. Under the Dothan Eagle's heading, Editor Hall daily prints the Biblical quotation: For I Heard Them Say, "Let Us Go To Dothan."- Genesis 37: 17, referring to the village...