Search Details

Word: crapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Come-Out (First Roll) 35 to 1 ($1,75 to 5?) against double numbers 17 to 1 (85? to 5?) against 11 11 to 1 (55? to 5?) against 4 or 10 8 to 1 (40? to 5? against 5 or 9 8 to 1 (40? to 5?) against crap (2, 3, 12) 5 to 1 (25? to 5?) against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Craps Manual | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...offer Henry?" While awaiting the answer, someone babbled "There's family cheer in Hires Root Beer" and the band played You Are My Sunshine. There was just one thing wrong with Henry's story: he had gotten his injury by tumbling off a boxcar while watching a crap game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Heroes for Hire | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...natives are all very good gamblers and they were on the deck of the ship shooting crap. In very good English you would hear them say "shoot five dollars" or "you're faded." They knew everything about a crap game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1944 | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...reputation for the musical clowning that has remained his stock in trade for a generation. It was on the curb outside Rector's that he acquired the battered, furry top hat which W. C. Fields later taught him to twirl with uncanny virtuosity. Lewis won it in a crap game from the driver of a hansom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Is Everybody Happy? | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...getting old themselves. That year the American Legion had come to Omaha 50,000 strong. Fathers locked their daughters in at night; the telephone company had to hire special busses to get its operators safely to & from work, through the cordons of roistering, fanny-pinching Legionnaires. There were crap games on the streets, bonfires in hotel lobbies, impromptu band concerts all night. Sacks of water fell out of hotel windows on hapless pedestrians. No female was too formidably plain to be safe from leers or sudden noises behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: The Legion and New Blood | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

First | Previous | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | Next | Last