Word: wager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Alsab backers may have been influenced by mysterious handbills that were distributed at the many Pimlico gates the day of the race. The handbills read; Alsah Can't Lose. The tout: a New York gambler who had made a wager of $1,000 against $3,000 that Alsab would go to the post the favorite
...American League the Boston Red Sox were in front of the Indians and Yankees. The Little Brownies, with as good a percentage (.500) as the Yankees, were in front of the Tigers. Many a fan was ready to wager that the Browns will finish ahead of the Tigers this year. Reason: hard-hitting Hank Greenberg, the Tigers' most valuable player, was placed in Class I A by a Detroit draft board last week, will be called for military service within a fortnight...
Sirs: Do TIME'S photographers have on a secret wager to find the most unattractive possible pose of Dorothy Thompson [see cut, centre -TIME, Jan. 6] for their admirable journal? So it appears; and it seems too bad to the number of TIME devotees who find in Miss Thompson . . . one of the steadily increasing lights now shining in a dark place. MRS. CURTIS CRUMP Asheville...
Wenches with warts want Willkie. Wampum wardens won't wager Willkie will win. Wealthy werewolves whine, wheedle whimsical, wily words. Winsome Willkie's worried wretches watch wonderingly while Wendell's wide wagon wabbles, wavers, wriggles weakly, weirdly wrecks. Willkie's wailing, wild words won't worry worthy workers, wives, widows, workless. Whooping windbag, Willkie wallops will-o'-wisps. Workingmen want work. Wayfarers, watchmen: warn wireless "Willkie...
...Carl told me that his cook was not only a good cook but a tremendous eater as well. Also a great eater was the cook of Mr. Allison, Carl's former partner in the PrestOLite business. One day, according to the story Carl told me, he made a wager with Mr. Allison on the gastronomic potentialities of their respective cooks. ... On the starting line Carl's cook said to Allison's cook, "What do we start wit, Nigger, hams?" Said Allison's cook to Fisher's cook, his eyes bulging a bit, "Look here, Galloway...