Word: big-shot
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...might; by all the ground rules, Governor Frank John Lausche of Ohio ought to be the worst kind of political liability. At 60 he is an unfraternal Democrat who often talks and acts like a Republican. He is the implacable enemy of lobbies and pressure groups of all kinds. Big-shot Republicans resent him; organization Democrats detest him; labor leaders denounce him as the foe of the workingman. His immigrant parentage arouses the suspicion of Mayflowering Americans. Protestants are skeptical of his Roman Catholic raising; devout Catholics deplore the fact that he is, in effect, excommunicated for marrying outside...
...word for the hard-muscled men who get paid for beating each other's brains out for the television audience, but all last month it seemed a mild word indeed for the men who really cash in on the boxing racket. Managers, seconds, two-bit camp followers and big-shot promoters trooped down to the New York State Athletic Commission to put on a command performance for Julius Helfand, New York's crusading new commission chairman, and showed all the symptoms of psychosomatic lockjaw. For sheer, simple-minded effrontery, there had been nothing like it since 1951, when...
Hypomania. In the dock at Old Bailey last week. Captain Peter Baker, M.P., war hero, audacious financier and poet, heard himself described by a psychiatrist as suffering from "hypomania," a ?5 word for big-shot complex. He pleaded guilty to six of seven charges against him, then, squinting through his horn-rimmed glasses, stood at soldierly attention as he was sentenced to seven years in prison...
Congratulations on your article . . . written with good humor and marred by only a few . . . anti-McCarthy conclusions. I chuckled at your exposure of the stupidity of big-shot coverups for little-shot fumblings with enlisted Communists...
...Big Heat (Robert Arthur; Columbia), like many another movie thriller, gets off to a fast start and then slows to a walk. An honest cop (Glenn Ford) defies his superiors by poking into the affairs of a big-shot gangster (Alexander Scourby) who seems implicated in a suicide. The bad men retaliate by planting a bomb in Ford's car. but blow up his wife (Jocelyn Brando) by mistake. Aided by Gloria Grahame. a lady of uncertain virtue who has been disfigured by one of the gangsters, Ford quits the police force and begins a one-man vendetta against...