Word: wagerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, unusual for TIME to carry a photo of a Negro, for hardly a week passes without such a picture being found in your pages. In the March 4 number alone, I counted at least four photos of Negroes, which I wager will raise the ire of many a good Texan, some of whom have not fully recovered from the shock given them when TIME referred to Hon. Arthur W. Mitchell as "gentleman.". . . THOMAS C. JERVAY Managing Editor The Cape Fear Journal Wilmington...
Reader Spear it was who opened ''Man-of-the-Year" nominations with a wager of a TIME subscription on France's late Louis Barthou, rejected by the editors on the primary ground of death...
...fault of the genial Mr. Farley. The last time that someone intimated that he of the hearty handshake perpetrated a grave error, it was promptly discovered (through the agency of Mr. Farley) that the stupid offender was some young stenographer with no head at all for politics. We wager that Mr. Farley forgot to discharge her. --Cornell Daily...
...willing to wager with any one TIME reader that this year's selection will be France's late great Louis Barthou. Terms of the wager: a one year's subscription to TIME; in the case of a subscriber, a one year's renewal thereof...
...gold cup; second prize, $7,500; third, $2,500. Donor of the prize money is Sir MacPherson Robertson, Australian candy tycoon. His sole stipulation was that the speed race must be completed within 16 days. British bookmakers found plenty of money to wager the race would be won in 86 hours. Record for the run was 6 days 17 hr. 56 min., made last year by Charles J. P. ("Unlucky...