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...ability, leaving no page in the book of mob inflammation unturned, no trick in the militarist deck unplayed. M. Daladier has been an apt pupil, and the guerre de revanche, seemingly moribund, has blossomed beneath his hand. The great obstacle is economic expediency, but Lloyd's are willing to wager at three to one odds that the French and German foreign offices can achieve the decisive calorie which will boil this issue away, and bring the kind of unmoneyed, simple conflict which dragged over Germany during the Thirty Years...
...When Connors gives little Swipes a spanking which causes him to run away, Brodie gives him a home. Still, Steve Brodie has no saloon. When two brewers offer to give him one if he can acquire a following, he thinks up the scheme of jumping off Brooklyn Bridge. His wager with Connors is a fine funeral against Connors' barroom. Brodie wins the bet. Chuck Connors thinks he did it dishonestly, gives him a thrashing on an East River barge. The Bowery ends with a reconciliation between Connors and Brodie. They are off to Cuba together, with Swipes concealed...
Advertisements in Arizona daily papers repeated the outcry, paid for by the loud Los Angeles Examiner to sell its issue of Sept. 24. The advertisements were an implied wager that no Arizona newspaper would print the scandal story. The Examiner was right...
...races are as honest, if not more so, than horse races, and proof of this can be had. Bettors wager on horse and dog races upon such facts as breeding, form, past performances, condition of track, weather, distances, etc. Who ever heard of playing a slot machine or buying a lottery ticket on such knowledge? Then why even lead people to think badly of dog racing, or at least include horse racing, as long as it is so evident the writer is not well informed on the actual present day facts...
...President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt from Montgomery, Ala. was so realistic that the undersigned insisted that some phonographic record must have been made of the speech and transmitted over the radio by your broadcast. Tones, inflections and mannerisms of Mr. Roosevelt were so real that the undersigned made a wager with the eldest son of the family that it was Mr. Roosevelt's own voice then speaking...