Word: wagered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sport of Kings" deals with a wager between two young men that they can persuade a staid and sober friend to ten on a horse race...
...champion had not had occasion to deal with that chop-stroke for some time. The sort of men who make their bread and butter by betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since...
...minutes with 38 strokes, come in with the same number of shots in 23 min. 45 sec., establishing a record of 44:45 and 82 for 18 holes which he challenges other golfers to beat. He traveled a distance of four miles. The amount of his wager was $25. The two, thinking with a twinge of melancholy of the three hours they had spent in their morning round, moved their old shanks, somewhat pathetically, into the clubhouse...
...Complete Limerick," he still clings nobly to his original conviction that there are enough decent limericks to fill a book--George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly quoted in the international book Review, puts forward as his favorites...
...When the World passed its 100,000 mark every employe received a silk hat with Mr. Pulitzer's best wishes. He usually closed all argument with a bet when the talk grew too strenuous, and the wager took the form of a hat-fre- quently five hats...