Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… thousands of pounds, fled to France to escape debtor’s prison. 18 . G. S. Street, ‘The Betting Book at Brooks's.’ The North American Review (vol. 173, n°536, July 1901), p. 45. 19 . Algernon H. Bourke, The History of White’s [with the Betting … period, the most vocal critics of gambling found that it had corrupted English society, accounting for the loss of the American colonies, and more generally for the degeneracy of the ruling classes. So that ' gambling was a form of …
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