Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forgotten things the Vagabond has given thought to his seniors. They are a surly lot at the moment for the anxiety of awaiting their marks has played havoc with their nerves. The old fellow has cast about to find some entertainment to divert their attention from the endless poker games and the other evils which they now employ to pass away the time. Nor have his castings been in vain...
...taken not long after. Said Badman Nannery, the identity of whose license plates was disclosed in a recent raid on one of his haunts: "I didn't intend to let anybody take me alive. What gets me is the way that hick flat foot kidded me with that poker face...
...turn out lavish super-cinemas (All Quiet on the Western Front, The King of Jazz). He remembers with a grin earlier Laemmle productions such as the 988-ft. Hiawatha. Of the human Carl Laemmle Biographer Drinkwater is unwilling or unable to tell much. "I understand that he plays poker for nickels or dollars with application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions, and he collects autographs. . . . His taste in the arts is unpretentious...
...poker face club is at it again with a vehemence which threatens to break up the party, but it probably won't, worst luck. No one knows who dealt the first hand. It may have been a partner of Mr. Hultman, well known in these parts as a stuffed club, who acted as host of the occasion when he presented an invitation ticket to Mayor Curley...
...councils were beginning to pro duce results, that the "deal" was a $1,000 sale at public auction of a lease which geologists had declared practically worth less and which the buyer, one E. S. Munoz, thought so little of that he divided it among his creditors in a poker game be fore (very much later) he sold...