Word: croupiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auditors. Sometimes the victim gets fun out of the experience, as in the story told about Actress Beatrice Lillie, last year at the gambling casino of Juan-les-Pins. When she sat down at a chemin de fer table, she began to hiccough, loudly. Before she could stop the croupier impassively shoved 150,000 francs to her. He thought that she had been barking "Banco...
Wars. M. Zaharoff, who proceeded to have himself naturalized a Frenchman, proceeded also to promote the interests of Mars throughout Europe and South America with such success that a host of nicknames were coined for him: "Sleeping Partner of War," "Mystery Man of Europe" and "Croupier for the International Roulette Wheel...
...again justified the comment of a Monte Carlo croupier: "Man dieu! One can understand why the Americans do not love opera, if theirs are all like this!" But the "poppy ballet," and the "lily ballet," and the "melodies which flow along easily and attach themselves to the memory with pleasurable effects," were all applauded with "real hand-stinging claps...
...Prince is said to have examined with particular care a roulette wheel, seized at a London gambling resort, which could be controlled at will by the croupier...
...Basil Zaharoff, G. C. B., recipient of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, born in poverty in Egypt, was recently described by the Paris press as the " First Croupier of Monte Carlo." He is generally alluded to as " Europe's Mystery Man " or as the " Croesus of Europe...