Word: wagered
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...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...
...Culbertson as his partner. His alternate partners will be Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz and Theodore A. Lightner. Mr. Lenz will play the entire match paired with Oswald Jacoby, member of the team which recently won the Vanderbilt Cup. Cocky Mr. Culbertson has backed himself with a $5,000 wager against $1,000 on the Lenz side. Culbertson winnings are promised to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children; Lenz winnings to the Unemployed...
...will wager Kaye Don wouldn't. And if there should be such a thing as they won the race, I know there would be no royal welcome on their return to England...
...Artist Kent found there was no train to his home at the end of the line he was furious. Never afraid of a fight or of publicity, he determined to battle bushy-bearded old Railroader Loree and his whole D&H system. This he did with his cousin Philip Wager Lowry, a young lawyer so astute that he kept Belle Livingstone out of trouble for many a month. During the hearings Mr. Loree's men painted a pathetic picture of their Ausable branch line. One train, they claimed, made 50 round trips without a passenger. An average trip netted...
...anyone to name the daily newspapers published in English in Manhattan. It is an almost certain wager that he will omit one-the smallest one, the newest one, by far the most curious one. Yet any morning except Monday he may step up to the newsstand in the Hotel Pennsylvania, or to two others nearby, and exchange three pennies for a copy of the Repository ("An Independent Newspaper") which last week published its 120th issue...