Word: crapping
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Games of roulette, crap, faro and birdcage at elaborate nightclubs tinkled pleasantly without interruption from the law. The William K. Vanderbilts came and went in their private car. The yearling sales, held every evening for a fortnight, began in a small, brightly-lighted outdoor arena across the road from the racetrack. The liveliest U. S. racing season in 20 years was nearing its peak...
...musi-comedy which displays a constant tendency to fall apart. Rival producers (the "Hobarts") try to buy the controlling interest. The leading lady (Lilian Miles) persuades a gambler friend (Leo Carillo) to foil the Hobarts by buying a piece of the show himself. He promptly loses it in a crap game and Sport Powell (Herbert Rawlinson), who wins it, unnerves Dwight by trying to make a pretty chorus girl (Mary Brian) the leading lady. A tiny vein of originality can be detected in the conclusion. Sport Powell gallantly gives the show to his chorus girl who, instead of playing...
...moved from his damaged cottage into his striking Charity Crucifixion Tower, remained incommunicado save to announce that he would soon reply to his "enemies." Sunday, with vibrant voice, he addressed once more the ten million. Defending his right to speak of financial matters, he renewed his denunciations of "crap-shooting bank affiliates and their hideout holding companies" which he had charged were formed to evade paying double liability. His investments he mentioned only briefly, crying that the Free Press "defames the League of the Little Flower and myself for investing in productive Michigan industry,* which we will do again...
...hours, abolition of child labor, introduction of unemployment, accident and disability insurance, the turning of public income from armament building to "productive employment enriching the com mon life." A committee of three bishops was named to urge immediate jobless relief on President Hoover. ¶Condemnation of gambling "from the crap game in a slum alley to speculation on the Stock Exchange." Recommendation: more vigorous enforcement of gambling laws...
...toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot...