Word: big-shot
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...also hounding down Louisiana's corrupt Democratic politicos. Having convicted Kansas City's Democratic Boss Pendergast and indicted Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses ("Moe") Annenberg for income-tax evasion, having prosecuted Federal Judge Martin Manton for "selling justice" in Manhattan and proceeded against big-shot Lawyers Louis Levy and Paul Hahn for their dealings with Judge Manton (rulings on their disbarment await the outcome of Judge Manton's appeal), Mr. Murphy's men are about to go to work on some of Hollywood's richest cinemagnates for alleged income-tax evasion and antitrust violations...
Five Came Back (RKO Radio). In a U. S. airliner headed for Panama City, twelve set out. There are two pilots and a steward, an old professor and his wife on vacation, an effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...
...party post. Evie, who rarely mentions her first husband,* was 26 in 1935 when she took the 48-year-old Chip as her second. They live in a gilded suite in the Mayflower, stage some of Washington's liveliest parties. Evie's stock of racy anecdotes about big-shot politicos is apparently inexhaustible. Naturally she does not write all she knows. From her first few columns...
Professor Edman recalls with nostalgia his pleasant childhood and youth on Morningside Heights, the teachers who stimulated him, a few of his more picturesque students (some now stuffed shirts, some leading Communists); he writes of his travels, praises the English, meditates on music, relates an encounter with a big-shot Nazi in Greece. But the spotlight is on those amateur philosophers whom he numbers among the "Society of Itinerant Humanists." One was a French doctor who came to treat Edman's indigestion, launched instead into a discourse on Platonic philosophy. Another is his maid Maria, one of the best...
...Tonight I am going to talk about . . . a political ally of thieves, pickpockets, thugs, dope peddlers and big-shot racketeers. Albert Marinelli, county clerk . . . powerful leader of half the Second Assembly District, dominates the whole. Tonight we turn on the spotlight...