Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined organizations for entertaining soldiers. Harpo reached France with the 7th Regiment. He worked as a reporter for the Stars & Stripes, like Editor Harold Ross of the New Yorker, Colyumist Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and Alexander Woollcott. With them he helped form the famed Thanatopsis Club, for poker...
...More & more as the week wore on. the Ottawa Conference began to be nicknamed "Ottawa Poker," each group and delegation doing its best to bluff the others...
...have back of us," announced President Davila, hard-eyed, poker-faced, "the united country with everyone cooperating. . . . The entire world will soon see how an industrious people, as the Chileans are, can put their country back on its feet through our Socialistic program that has the support of all classes. . . . Peoples of all foreign nations can depend...
Behind locked doors an angry scene took place. When the doors opened at last out strolled Don Carlos wearing a poker-face smile. To flabbergasted correspondents he announced: "I have re-signed." He refused to make any explanation, as did other members of the Government. He called his limousine, drove home...
...Dark Horse (Warner) is the cinema's first travesty on affairs of state. Less savage than farcical, it show's how an addle-headed bumpkin is nominated for Governor and elected after losing his clothes in a game of strip-poker...