Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise money for unemployed draughtsmen, New York architects have held progressive cocktail parties, poker games, exhibited their hobbies. Chicago architects held a studio ball with a nude young woman, at $1 a look, as one sideshow (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). Recently the decorous firm of Delano & Aldrich thought...
...secret service Manchukuo. Bandits not in Japanese Employment; is no such thing. Disregard protests Pacific Steamship Company I impersonated Gibbons for free return voyage; he isn't patch on me. Sorry Roosevelt farm relief speech caused confusion, I wrote first half. Ejected from his special at Deming, governor a poker player all right. Don't buy H. A. A. book for me until I wire I am getting free board I expect in ST. Louis. Please wire funds. As Walker knows, it's money makes the mare go. Regards to Bingham, Ryan. Have you a wolf in lab's clothing...
...Pittsburgh Lawrence Reed, 8, swore. Father John Reed seized a glowing poker, seared Lawrence Reed's lips...
...Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war. Will cancellation revoke Ottawa decrees unfavorable to us? Will it put American wheat on a parity with Canadian in Liverpool? All Yahoos who have read the history of Anglo-American diplomatic poker-playing know better...
...sides appeared truckloads of police, shooting as they came. The rebel lines wavered, broke. The soldiers ran for cover, shooting as they ran. Seven fell. Police took 200 prisoners, including eight men found in a room near the war office where they said they had met to play poker. A doctor, passing in a taxicab, was drilled through the head. Within four hours the uprising was over, Madrid was quiet under martial...