Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English ladies were at home. Observers predicted an English victory in the rain. On the drenched hills and dales of the Wentworth course in Surrey the three ranking Americans were rained under. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare took a routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty Enid Wilson ran into the ground husky Helen Hicks, the gallery's grinning, clowning favorite. Diana Fishwick, a highstrung little fighter, did the same for Maureen Orcutt. The matches were even at three for England, three...
...Million-Dollar Baby" who slept in a crib decorated with gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace the Lindbergh baby. A conference was arranged attended by Captain Emory S. Land, U. S. N., Col. Lindbergh's cousin, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Means said that the presence...
...Tyler, Tex., Alvin C. ("Titanic") Thompson, notorious gambler, alleged participant in the poker game which led to the murder of Arnold Rothstein, shot and killed one Jimmy Frederick, 16-year-old golf caddy who had attempted to hold...
...swank poker game Abie, beaten on the first hand, demands to see his opponents' cards. He is loftily told that it is a gentleman's game; hands are not shown. Next day Abie informs a friend that the game was a good one; he won $900, lost nothing after the first hand...
...industry than Mr. Zukor, Mr. Lasky or Mr. Hertz. But Shanghai Express is" a picture of the new school, and when Marlene Dietrich promises Warner Oland to visit him at his castle if he will refrain from destroying Clive Brook's eyesight with a red hot poker, you will not find the situation banal...