Word: wagered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldtime anthracite man, Mr. Swayne has held high positions in many coal trade associations and clubs, is known as a clever postprandial speaker. He has delivered several sermons in Philadelphia churches. He possesses an excellent bass-baritone, has gone on tours singing Negro songs, lecturing. His father was General Wager Swayne, Military Governor of Alabama after the Civil War and founder of Swayne Hall at Talladega, Ala., first Negro college in Alabama. His brother is Alfred Harris Swayne, vice president of General Motors Corp. Mr. Swayne became president of Burns Bros, less than two years ago. Since his election there...
...payment of an alleged wager with Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop...
...Crosby Co., three years later became its youngest salesman. He was sales manager and a director of the company when he left to go with Commander-Larabee. He is credited with having sold more flour than any man in the U. S. A stanch Democrat, he recently offered to wager $1,000 he could name every plank to be adopted at the convention...
Year ago William Robert Crissey 2nd, 26, quit his job in a Philadelphia brokerage to carry out a $2,000 wager that he could, within a year, dine with Herbert Hoover, golf with Robert Tyre Jones Jr, and with John D. Rockefeller, motor or golf with Edward of Wales. In the first week Mr. Crissey got himself invited to a newsmen's dinner at which President Hoover was guest. But he spent the rest of the year, which expired last week, in unsuccessful pursuit of Golfers Jones, Rockefeller, Edward of Wales...
...where dew that leave my grade? In order to write a perfect paper for next Thursday I must not only write a correct one; in addition I must foresee just 'how the reader will take it." I do not know the gentleman who reads my paper, but I'll wager that, notwithstanding the decisiveness with which he decrees that this expression is right, that in wrong, if he ever spent a day in France he was shepherded by a Cook's guide...