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Across the Board 134: He owns a stable of horses and is a ball of fire in New Jersey and Maryland.at ball of fire (n.) under ball, n.1
Across the Board 134: He owns a stable of horses and is a ball of fire in New Jersey and Maryland. Across the Board 42: A venerable legal beagle from Brooklyn, Robert Elder.at legal beagle, n.
Across the Board 15: So I played horses, using men as betting commissioners, or ‘beards’.at beard, n.
Across the Board 111: He was a big-leaguer who could not forget that he once had been broke.at big-leaguer, n.
Across the Board 213: The glib, flashy prankster says to The Champ: ‘How much insurance do you carry?’ ‘Why?’ ‘The Big Fella is lookin’ for you.’.at big boy, n.
Across the Board 240: Touts were allowed to advertise winners they did not have. This was called ‘blasting,’ ‘dynamiting,’ or ‘bulldogging’.at blast, n.1
Across the Board 64: The TRPB bloodhounds had a suspicion Lamont was a gambler.at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
Across the Board 150: For a ‘boat race’ Mahoney ruled seven steeplechase jockeys and a trainer off for life, and gave an agent a year’s suspension.at boatrace, n.1
Across the Board 126: Burke looked at Karty’s cheque, smiled and said calmly: ‘If this one bounces you’re in bondage for life.’.at bounce, v.2
Across the Board 95: Politicians put pressure on the track owners, bulled them into permitting a select few, self-appointed saviors of the sport to make book again.at bull, v.1
Across the Board 240: Touts were allowed to advertise winners they did not have. This was called ‘blasting,’ ‘dynamiting,’ or ‘bulldogging’.at bulldog, v.
Across the Board 246: The race-track managements encouraged touting, regarding the parasites as steerers for their bust-out joints.at bust-out joint, n.
Across the Board 137: Then he was busted out on an odds-on shot.at busted (out), adj.
Across the Board 313: Chalk eaters: favorite bettors.at chalk-eater (n.) under chalk, n.1
Across the Board 60: I did not holler ‘Cheeze it, the cops,’ he protested indignantly, I said ‘Gentlemen, the police is here’.at cheese it!, excl.
Across the Board 268: A gentle clip-artist, Abadaba robbed bookmakers as well as bettors.at clip-artist (n.) under clip, v.1
Across the Board 51: There was a clocker’s knock against the horse, who was touched in the wind.at clocker, n.1
Across the Board 222: We don’t want to deal to him. We have word he’s going to take a desperado today. [Ibid.] 314: Desperado – One who bets or borrows with no intention to pay; one certain to become a welcher, it being firmly established in gambling circles that a person who takes a welching chance will welch.at desperado, n.
Across the Board 80: They were betting deuces, fins, sawbucks and double sawbucks.at deuce, n.1
Across the Board 240: Touts were allowed to advertise winners they did not have. This was called ‘blasting,’ ‘dynamiting,’ or ‘bulldogging’.at dynamite, v.
Across the Board 213: The glib, flashy prankster.at flashy, adj.
Across the Board 114: A poor relative he put on the payroll as a Comeback Money Man, a goldbrick.at goldbrick, n.
Across the Board 177: He flung away fortunes in grubstakes to bums, heels and lobby-gows.at lobby-gow, n.
Across the Board 119: Nobody knows how much he gave away in grubstakes.at grubstake, n.
Across the Board 124: Dollar John Langer [...] ran a handbook on a lower East Side street.at hand book (n.) under hand, n.1
Across the Board 121: A card sharp who worked the ocean liners and was a high roller with the horses.at high roller, n.
Across the Board 309: Fusco made a hit on the horses.at hit, n.
Across the Board 137: Baltimore in wartime was an open city with horse-rooms and wire-offices.at horse room (n.) under horse, n.
Across the Board 121: The time he got himself jacked up with income-tax trouble, he summoned Jack to Chicago to handle the contract.at jacked up, adj.3
Across the Board 257: The bogus agent even went to the bank with the tycoon for the juice.at juice, n.1
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