Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organized liberals. Recruited to protect corporate property, their strong-arm work has on occasion become nationally notorious. Crowning brutality occurred two years ago when three Coal & Iron policemen quarreled with one John Barcoski, Polish miner, while he was on his way to work. They beat him, bent a poker over his head, left him dead. Two of the officers were convicted of manslaughter...
...spasmodic working habits bewilder his subordinates. To ease their minds he has instructed a special studio watchman to keep a lookout for his car and swiftly warn the workers of its approach. Thus laggards will not lose their self-respect by having the boss catch them in a poker game...
...White Plains, N. Y., David Cornell was playing penny ante poker, filled an inside royal flush (perfect poker hand: ace, king, queen, jack, ten of the same suit). His hand trembled, his opponents dropped out, he won 37?. Unnerved, he went home, was stricken with acute indigestion. Doctor's bill...
...hands of those who thought they had done the best thing for the company the business which his grandfather and namesake had started 63 years ago. Said he: ". . . naturally the greatest disappointment of my life." Grunow Ousted. Spectacular in the radio industry has been the team of poker-faced, precise Bertram James Grigsby and round-faced, shouting, swearing William Carl Grunow, but last week this team was forever severed. During the past year depression visited Grigsby-Grunow Co., and its refrigerator affiliate, Majestic Household Utilities. A $4,000,000 patent suit was lost to Magnavox Corp. of San Francisco...
...girl like Clara with everything and no respect for anything." Secretary de Boe sometimes paid out her own funds for her employer's liquor. At frequent intervals she brightened the famed red shade of her employer's hair. Miss Bow, she said, liked to play poker six nights a week, generously bought watches, rings for her men friends, of whom Miss de Boe mentioned five - Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Harry Richman, Dr. Earl Pierson, Rex Bell and ''so many it's hard to remember them all. ... I had to dress her . . . buy her gowns...