Word: craps
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...packed courtroom. Joe looked defiant. "Sure I was in jail," he said. "I'm on the right side now, but-" he turned to face the jury, "I still have no respect for the law. How can I? Not when I see the cops cutting in on our crap games and card games. How do you expect us to have respect for the law when the cops themselves don't respect...
There are two leading guys. One, Nathan Detroit (Sam Levene), manages floating crap games and has been affianced for 14 years to a nightclub singer (Vivian Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...
...Harry Vaughan never fails the veterans," explained a member of the presentation party. "Why, the other day a colored [veteran] lost his shoes in a crap game. When General Vaughan learned of this man's plight, he called in his secretary and said, 'Nora, you take this $20 and you go get this man a pair of shoes . . .' That's why we gave Harry Vaughan the Distinguished Service Medal...
...chances of making 28 straight passes with the dice in a crap game are "about ten million to one." But last week a young man walked into Las Vegas' plush new Desert Inn, and in one hour and 20 minutes of hair-raising play, did just that. His amazing run of luck cost the casino $125,000. Zeppo Marx won $28,000 in side bets, Gus Greenbaum, one of the owners of a rival club, raked in $48,000, and others among the gamblers who crowded four-deep around the table carried off thousands more...
...town had figured that Wilbur was crazy when he set out to build his dream hotel three years ago. He had done pretty well before that. He is a greying, boyish man who worked his way from bus boy to crap dealer to the ownership of a string of San Diego cocktail bars, moved to Las Vegas (in 1941) and blossomed into a full-fledged Nevada gambling impresario. But his Desert Inn sounded just too rich...