Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making a little money on the side. But now you may walk into a pullman car on one of the overland limiteds and see a bunch of them sitting around, looking bigger in their store clothes than on the field, sunburned from the Florida training season, playing bridge or poker, drinking charged water or ginger ale with nothing in it. For last week the big league ball season opened. Enthusiasts throughout the land agree or disagree on the probable showing of the 16 teams, among which the six following are potent...
...nobody dared shoot at them for fear the Federals would hear. My closest escape was one night when five of the bandits got drunk and wanted to hang me for the hell of it. Cruz Delgado finally talked them out of it. I taught those fellows to play poker. Some of them got to be pretty good. The last night after the ransom was paid they killed a turkey and gave me a party. The mosquitoes, though! They were something fierce...
...tucked in bed, allowed 13 hours of sleep. More tests were conducted after that. Observations: after the 13-hour sleep, faculties of memory and concentration were restored almost to normal; emotional reactions were below par; those who had less difficulty in staying awake were most fatigued; in all night poker games, players should relax between hands; after sleeping the students were 50% more fatigued than they would have been with two nights' sleep...
Burning Up (Paramount). The great difficulty with stories in which sport is used as a background against which a nice fellow and a knave compete for a girl, is that the big horse race, or prize fight, or poker game on which love and honor and the happy ending depend, is hard to photograph. Everything moves wonderfully up to a certain point, but after that one of two things must happen: either the spectator struggles with the technicalities of the selected background, or the director shirks the responsibilities of his climax, brushing through it with a shot of a crowd...
...There is something ideal in this marriage of immense interest. Many marriages fail for reasons other than those given in the court records*. . . When athletes of the Helen Wills type marry you can rest assured that the basic natural law of physical perfection in mating has been fulfilled. Little Poker Face is a young woman whose physical condition must be nearly perfect by virtue of the strenuous sport at which she excelled...