 | Arthur Machen - 1926 - 252 pagina’s
...entertainment," the later club had become the headquarters of high play. Walpole writes in 1750 : " They have put in the papers a good story made on White's....and said it would affect the fairness of the bet." And so Lord Lyttleton says that he trembles to think that " the rattling of a dice-box at White's may... | |
 | Leopold Wagner - 1928 - 362 pagina’s
...kept on the hall table. According to an oft-told tale, once a man dropped down dead at the door and was carried in ; the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or only in a fit, and when they were about to bleed him the wagerers for his deathjnterposed, saying it... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1930 - 480 pagina’s
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 | Sidney Dark - 1937 - 312 pagina’s
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 | Horace Walpole - 1963 - 588 pagina’s
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 | James Laver - 1972 - 248 pagina’s
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They have put in the papers a good story made on White's: a man dropped down dead at the door, was carried in : the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and... 
