Word: wager
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trial Run. In Eureka. Mont., Pat Wager, candidate for town constable, went on a campaign tour of several bars, decided he was as good as elected, jailed three citizens, landed in jail himself for disturbing the peace...
Actor Peck is cast as a jobless U.S. clerk who falls victim in London to a wonderfully impractical joke. Two rich British brothers have made a wager: one bets that a man with no other resources could live for a month on the credit he could cadge simply by flashing a legitimate million-pound note; the other bets that he would sooner or later have to cash the bill. Peck is picked, and told that if he succeeds he can name any job he wants...
...will wager a small hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...
Umpteen million amateur photographers will read the article about George Tames's picture of President Eisenhower [TIME, Feb. 15], and I'll wager 90% of them will wonder what kind of camera . . . what f. opening . . . what shutter speed . . . what light source...
...situation meets with the majority of alumni approval--or it doesn't. Why not find out? And why not send a copy of your full page discussion of the Boston Post to the Daily Worker in New York asking for their views? I'll wager a one year's subscription to the American Mercury Magazine for the CRIMSON Editorial Board that the Daily Worker will approve of your stand. Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 Elm Street, Concord, Mass...