Word: bigshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a bigshot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated, and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
...colorless, odorless and tasteless" Times fired Liebling from its copydesk for identifying an unidentified basketball referee as "Ignoto" ("unknown" in Italian). He quit his next job on the Providence Journal when the publisher fired a reporter to make room for the son of a local bigshot. (Liebling dedicates his book "to the foundation of a school for publishers, failing which, no school of journalism can have meaning...
...hundred steel companies than one United States Steel Corporation." Explained the biggest shot in the biggest Government in the world: "Those small institutions give some two or three men a chance to be big shots in their communities. When you go to [big ones] you will find one 'bigshot' and a hundred or so vice presidents...
...judge and torturers, serve all the more to convince the Gestapo that he has a great deal to cover up. After prison scenes which recall those of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the old man is released, thanks to an Anglo-Jewish cabaret star and a Nazi bigshot (Walter Rilla) who is infatuated with her. When at length old Isaac does find the boy's mother, she has married a Nazi and has so wholly betrayed all that was ever good about her that, on his return to England, he thinks it best to tell the child...
...renomination to the U.S. House of Representatives of Isolationist Hamilton Fish (see p. 15), whom the Nazis feted and paraded in 1939 as a friendly American bigshot...