Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East of Third Avenue, Manhattan's 107th Street is a live and crawling thing. Sometimes, late at night, it is almost still. But even when the wretched houses stare poker-faced at nothing in the dark, fetid street there is still a strong sense of the hot, swart, teeming Italians inside. In the winter, 107th Street is piled with refuse and dirty snow. In the summer the sun beats down until it bubbles the tar. Thick, bad odors cling in the crannies, clutch at the passerby...
...tennis. Till this year his con viviality, his susceptibility to admiration, have made it appear unlikely that he would turn his potentialities into a championship. Aged 21, a year older than Wood, Shields started to play tennis at 8, has since found time to become good at basketball, bridge, poker. He practices five or more hours a day, diets carefully and cuts down his smoking in the tennis season which, for him, is nearly all the time...
Smart Money (Warner Brothers) is a fast, factual and exciting cinema about a Greek gambler named, after several real ones, Nick.* He gets started in a small-town barber shop, running a poker game on the side. His customers so respect his poker playing that they stake him for a big-town game. Ingenuous Nick gets cheated on his first excursion; the next time he gets punched in the face. The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist...
...overpublicized, abruptly broken. She lost $13,500 gambling at Calneva, Nev., and refused to pay. Finally came the trial of her thieving secretary, Daisy de Boe, who, in the effort to make it seem that her character had suffered from proximity to Cinemactress Bow, revealed that Clara Bow played poker six nights a week, bought herself a $10,000 engagement ring, gave rings and watches to her men friends-of whom Secretary de Boe mentioned Richman, Pierson, Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Rex Bell. A Hollywood publisher of a weekly tabloid, Frederic H. Girnau, then printed Bow anecdotes, was charged with...
...hair is grey, so is his mustache. The walls of his office are covered with pictures of his racing yachts and his horses. But the most prominent picture on his walls is one of his father. Many times they took an early morning train to Manhattan, played poker. Every winter F. T. Bedford would spend a month or so with his father at Lake Wales, Fla. Each admired the other. But years ago they made a rule never to discuss business together. The rule was very seldom broken even to mention such important matters as Corn Products' patent infringement...