Word: wager
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Barrymore and Mary Young taking the leading roles, made a record run on Broadway. The play has since toured the country and has proved itself particularly adaptable to amateur and especially college productions, as it abounds in witty lines and amusing situations. The plot revolves around a $30,000 wager that the leading character can elude the police for one year. A phrase "Believe Me, Xantippe," habitually used by the fugitive reveals his identity, and he is arrested but wins the wager on a technicality...
...reels of pictures of the Cornell game which will be explained by H. Robb '18, assistant manager of the University football team. In addition to this, two first-run photoplays will be shown as follows: Anita Stewart in "The Suspect," five reels; Raymond Hitchcock in "The Wonderful Wager," two reels...
Seven reels of first-class photoplays will be shown as follows: Anita Stewart in "The Suspect," five reels; Raymond Hitchcock in "The Wonderful Wager," two reels. In addition to these, two reels of "movies" of the Cornell game will be put on the screen and explained by H. Robb '18, assistant manager of the University football team. An orchestra and a group of singers will furnish the musical part of the program. The usual Budweiser beer, class cigarettes, cider, crackers and cheese will be provided...
...Harvard Progressive Club has made arrangements to meet Mr. B. H. Anderson, the Pennsylvania Enthusiast, who lost a wager on Col. Roosevelt at the last election, and who must, as a consequence, lead a Democratic Donkey from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, at Harvard Square this noon at 1 o'clock. Mr. Anderson has signified his willingness to relate a few of his many experiences thus far encountered and will air his views of the Progressive party chances in 1916. All members of the University are invited to hear...
...audience must know that the apartment of Mr. George MacFarland, wealthy New Yorker, has been robbed, that he is thoroughly disgusted with the stupidity of the police in allowing the burglars to escape and so, to prove how utterly dead is the arm of the law, he makes a wager with friends that he can commit a gross crime and, given but a few hours to make his escape, evade the police of the whole nation for a year. Instead of permitting us to see the bungling officers, to have first hand knowledge of their propensities to idiocy...