Word: wagered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...softball battle is scheduled for the next day on which it doesn't rain. This time the WAVES meet the league-winning Class D team of the NSCS. To insure keen competition the men have offered their opponents a male pitcher and catcher, a seven-run advantage, and a wager; the winners are to be entertained at the losers' mess-hall. We have accepted the challenge and the terms and are all set to prove they were much too lenient...
...WAGER-SMITH Albuquerque...
Reorganization of the Turkish Cabinet last fortnight produced substantial evidence that Turkey's ruling clique, while clinging to strictly pro-Turkish neutrality, was ready to wager on Allied victory...
...extent that there were about a dozen Ph.D.s in organic chemistry on the Berlin police force. I recall with shame that a group at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society thought that was really funny and an indication of just how dumb the Germans were. You can wager that those chemists are no longer on the police force. Neither are they in the army...