Word: wagered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entered the city of Paris. He wore a heavy leather coat, leather gloves, and a cushion on the back of his neck. He had taken just eight months to reach Paris from Holland and had just six months more in which to reach Marseilles in order to win a wager. He travels about five miles a day. His method of progression is to put his hands on the ground, lift his feet, turn a neat somersault, repeat the process ad infinitum...
Florence Reed, actress: "To 'decide a wager,' I dressed up in the old woman make-up that I wear in The Lullaby and collected 28? by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28? was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28? to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well...
...Zaza Is a music-hall actress but quite respectable. "When she makes a wager that she will make Milio Dufresne declare his love for her she does not know that he has a wife and an angel child, Toto. When she follows him to Paris she meets the wife and Toto. There Is a lachrymose interview, but Zaza goes home again without having made a scene...
...members are Frank Gray (42) for Oxford City and Captain Ainsworth (48) for Bury. Bath men saw service in the War. The wager is the outcome of a jocular remark made by Gray to the effect that he would outwalk any man his age from Banbury to Oxford...
...chance to greatly improve. And so all of us countless millions who time after time tumble over the discovery without stumbling on it would like to know just how he happened to see if and pick it up. And, if anyone is offering odds, wouldn't you like to wager a little that it all sprang out of a cookie jar incident or something very like it? -Los Angeles Times