Word: wagerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, it's obvious from that, that the weekend was spoiled. They heard President Lowell speak and Dr. Huey disrupted the very estimable gathering by offering, in a loud voice, to wager on the time he spoke. So they finally came home into last night thoroughly disgruntled. And the Vagabond is herein chronicling his side of the story for his own protection and, needs must add, watch out what Dr. Hu Flung Huey will do to those boat races! And that, too is not the mere bias of a literary quarrel as if may seem...
...note: Cornell authorities refused to make any change to include the name of Hans Wager on the War Memorial cloister...
...will wager a toothpick against a tenpenny nail that Hoover will be renominated and re-elected...
...Paramount). Though fantastic and melodramatic, The Sea God has the merit of an original idea. "Pink" Barker and one Schultz, rival sea captains of the south seas, wager their ships on the outcome of a race. Daisy, in love with Barker but unwilling to show it until he mends his shiftless ways, stows away with him. Barker's craft is far ahead until he turns back to rescue a demented derelict in an open boat. The derelict dies after telling of a great pearl bed off a nearby island. Because of the rescue Barker loses the race and his ship...
Sirs: Two American newspaper reporters in Panama have just locked horns over a matter of grammatical construction and each being desirous of securing the wager-which amounts to no less than 100 glasses of cold beer which is in no way affected by the 18th Amendment-we finally agreed upon you as the only suitable authority. The disputed sentence is as follows: "In landing on a rough and muddy field at Tela, the propeller of the plane was broken, necessitating a delay of two days while installing a new one." Our argument centers only on the grammatical correctness...