Word: bum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moviemakers were inclined to outdo themselves. Each studio needed a major male star, and Peck looked like a good risk. Moreover, since no studio had been able to snare him outright, each was determined to sweat the best possible use out of him. Peck was inadvertently handed some bum pictures; but each one was a major production. And during his first years, he had the run of a virtually clear field. Since he ran it as seriously and efficiently as if the field were swarming with tacklers, he had established himself solidly by the time his competitors got back...
Deliberate Reloading. Last week he almost met his equal-but not quite. He went to the town of Pettus on a tip that two bum-check suspects might be going that way. They were. Vail got them in front of Houston Prewet's filling station, handcuffed them and pushed them into the station office while he made a phone call. One of them whipped a .38 revolver from a shoulder holster and put four slugs in Vail. That was his mistake...
...Bum's Rush to Indian...
...Bum's Rush. At 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Foreign Minister German Vegara called Cunja to his office, accused him of Communist plotting, handed him his passport. Government police hustled him to Los Cerrillos airport, where a plane was warming up to take him to Argentina. While Cunja was being told off, detectives knocked at the Hotel Carrera suite of Dalibor Jakasa, secretary of the Yugoslav legation in Buenos Aires, who had been in Santiago for only a few days. Jakasa was booted...
...Cats. The defense, quite naturally, did not take kindly to the ghosts. Accusations and name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...