Word: wager
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While we're getting hot tips from our crystal ball, we wager 20 May as the official date for Juniors to start moving off the station or to McCulloch Hall, with such moves to take place before the 23rd...
...less essential than the dogs, but far better known, are the bookmakers. Big tracks license 150 or more for each meeting. Two shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
Bernard Montgomery had bet six shillings that he would not be home by Christmas ; where he might be, he would not wager. Mark Clark had said: Naples, Rome and a liberated Italy. These, obviously, were immediate objectives. For every bridgehead must ultimately lead or contribute to the advance on the Nazi heartland, the German inner citadel...
...whole letter column of the Saturday Review of Literature was taken up by one letter. The letter-writer was one Gustave Lamartine, onetime head of the French Academy of Design. He had quite a tale to tell: 1) he had made a 50,000-franc wager with one Max Gerhardt, Austrian hat designer, that he could design a preposterous hat and get women to wear it; 2) he had won the bet. Wrote...
...sure that had I realized, back in 1934 and 1935, that my creation would persist ... I would never have made my ill-fated wager. Moreover, were it not for the war I should probably have carried my secret to the grave...