Word: boodler
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...Honor, the 1982 Condon novel that Director John Huston turned into one of Jack Nicholson's better films. There Charley was seen at mid-life, and his crisis was that his wife (Kathleen Turner in the film) turned out to be not only a Mob hit woman but a boodler who tried to grab some Mafia loot. Wistfully but dutifully, Charley killed her, after she was set up by his old and still smoldering sweetheart Maerose Prizzi (Anjelica Huston...
Last week, after 42 days' trial, the boodlers got billed. Boss Boodler Evans, 73, and his fellow commissioner, former G.O.P. State Chairman James Torrance, were found guilty of misconduct in office and conspiracy (probable prison sentence: two years). Manu-Mine President Stickler and his No. 2 man face five-year prison terms, $5,000 fines...
...Dame game we were given ten dollars if we had that much coming from our pay, but that is the only time I remember that we were allowed to have any spending money. Instead of money we were given five dollars each month in the form of coupons or "boodler's tickets" that could be exchanged at the Academy store for candy, magazines, and papers, or we could get something to eat at the restaurant when we were off duty...
Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
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