Word: wager
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only will Javits carry the upstate vote, but I am willing to wager that he will break the Democratic bloc of New York City. Javits sounds more like a Democrat than Wagner...
...known to the trade-down to a modest 4.8% on football and basketball, only 2.4% on baseball. Bookies who go through the motions of paying their taxes simply try to get away with listing all bets at 10% of their actual figure, i.e., a $1,000 wager goes into the ledger as $100. The tax then dwindles to a modest 1%. As long as he fools the Feds, the bookmaker has a chance of staying solvent...
...summer, even movies were not profitable. So last year, Haliday, in conjunction with Michael Wager, Miles Morgan '50, and Hunt, decided to revive the Brattle. Their decision was based on nostalgia rather than on any practical business sense, "We thought it would be fun" Haliday recalls. "Since we'd lose money on movies anyway, we figured we might as well lose it on plays...
...told in a series of flashbacks. The first and best concerns Edward Mulhare, a Christian Irishman who starts out as a British plainclothesman and ends up serving in the Israeli ranks because of his love for a Jewish girl, sensitively played by Haya Hararit. The second tells of Michael Wager, a Jew from New York City (but, refreshingly, not from Brooklyn), who is both wounded and briefly disillusioned in an unsuccessful attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. This episode gives a cleanly realistic picture of street fighting: instead of charging pell-mell at the enemy, the Israelis advance...
...aging Empress Elizabeth to die. Catherine had ample time for self-study. Isolated by sycophants and informers, the young Duchess had no friends to turn to in the Russian court, which, for all its Frenchified airs, was a bear pit of intrigue and malevolence. "One could lay a wager that half the court could hardly read, and I would be surprised if more than a third could write," noted Catherine, who was soon wading through the classics of courtcraft (Tacitus, Plutarch, Montesquieu) and such French philosophers as Voltaire, D'Alembert and Diderot. To Encyclopedist Diderot, after her accession...