Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified Sun broke out with a series of poker-faced articles on WPA Polo: What It Costs To Play ("a moderately good polo pony can be bought for less than $7,500"). Sculptor Jack Lambert offered a bederbied trophy for a politicians' polo tournament. Reporters pestered Park Board President Frank Durkee by asking whether WPA would supply ponies and stabling...
...darkly suspected of being both a socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So disgusted was Punch with the Radical, whom it contemptuously called "Joey," that he was caricatured as a clown, caught in the act of applying a red-hot poker labeled "Socialism" to the behind of a Briton reading the Times with a checkbook under...
Japan's Ambassador to the U. S. since 1934 has been 51-year-old Hiroshi Saito, a jovial, waspy little man who has ingratiating ways with Washington correspondents, plays poker with White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre and prides himself on his U. S. slang. Diplomat Saito approves the establishment of a Japanese-controlled China, but is generally believed to dislike the smashing tactics the army is using to achieve it. His unpalatable task since the China war started has been to square aggressive Japan with a U. S. sympathetic to China. Dashing about making polite apologies and good-will...
Time Capsule, not to be opened for 5,000 years. Into the capsule they had crammed a cross-section of 20th-century culture- films, clothing, articles "pertaining to the grooming and vanity of women," poker chips, slips of paper, dimes and dictionaries, reproductions of art, letters, music, a copy of TIME'S 15th-anniversary issue (February 28) on microfilm. Three items chosen to show the "Futurian Man" typical prodigies of 20th-century music were: 1) Finlandia by Jean Sibelius; 2) The Stars & Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa; 3) Flat Foot Floogie by Bud Green, Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart...
Frequent and widespread has been the expression of contempt for the blundering and faltering progress of the democracies in the present crisis. In history's most gigantic poker game, Hitler plays a winning hand because he has the confidence of a nation behind him, while Chamberlain and Daladier feel the depressing and distracting pull of public opinion. With French Communists threatening to strike rather than submit to national defense measures and British opposition flaring against the Cabinet's City policies, the Reich stands firm and united. Seemingly Fascism has once more demonstrated its ability to outmaneuver democracy because...