Word: craps
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...Richmond, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Johnson, 17, made $235 in a crap game before she was arrested. Her fine...
...Stewart rolled Big Dick (ten), Frank Butler a Natural (seven), Frank Peters a Miss Hicks (six). What the crap decided, the Judge confirmed...
...Snake eyes [two aces] and you get 14 days. Roll anything else and you get what you make," solemnly intoned Judge Charles W. Woodward of Rockville, Md. last week. Before him were Stewart Brent, Frank Butler, Frank Peters, Negroes convicted of crapshooting. He made them shoot crap again...
Capone became a marked man. When he want to the theatre he would buy out almost a whole row and string blue-jowled body guards out on each side of him. He made millions, spent millions, thought nothing of losing $100,000 in an evening's crap game. His income became a subject of U. S. scrutiny. Last week he faced charges of evading his Federal tax on enormous profits...
...Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game, a Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke...