Show I 1 NOW IT STARTED 6 by JEAN NEWTON I 1 TO 0 BE A PLUNGER E IS a plunger we occasionally t hear of a man who lw paradoxically speaking rather than gamble stakes all or most of what he has at the moment in a rech less effort to gain his objective e by the prace grace of good luck while the lingual significance of the terra term plunger is at once apparent nt it la Is to the eirl earl of hastings historically that we must give credit for its widespread use in the sense already noted for it Is authoritatively stated that the earl of hastings was the first gambler to be called a plunger this occurred after he be had played placed and lost three games of checkers for the equivalent of each ile he then cut a pack of cards for the equivalent of 2500 a cut losing about 2 within an hour and a half his friends end and onlookers dubbed him a plunger and soon the term got into general circulations circulation with ath the meaning indicated 2 hell ell syndicate service sen ice |