Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genesis of this campaign against labor in the House of Representatives is not hard to find. It is within the Democratic party. It runs across to the Senate of the United States and emanates there from a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man whose name is Garner...
Before nightfall Lewis' crack at Garner had become a national gag. Bibbers lifted highballs with happy cries of "Well, here goes, you whiskey-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man." Columnists' consensus was that old tomato-nosed John Garner now had the drinking and card-playing vote locked up solidly...
...coin to determine which would be Democrat, which Republican. Until his death in 1936 Hawk supported Alf Landon. But if Gene Howe never gets to Congress, he probably won't be too sorry. Never has he returned from a trip to his Texas duck blinds, daily golf, bridge & poker that he hasn't cried: "I'm never, never going away again...
...afternoon drifts by. A bull session. A game of poker. A set of tennis. Dinner. The Vag sets out on a cruise to find some fellow freedmen. A Ford comes whipping by, top down, boys perched on the hood. Vag lets out a war-whoop. Brakes jam and squeal. "Hey, where you goin...
...Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer and Inner Cabinet confidant, Sir John Simon, is cold and devious, a lawyer whose poker face and ambiguous, clausy rhetoric are well adapted to muddling through. Devious and poker-faced as ever last week, Sir John took steps definite enough to jolt the bowler-hatted businessmen of London's "City." He mobilized the Bank of England and the London Stock Exchange to impose "Simon's unofficial ban" on British buying of U. S. securities...