Word: comer
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...face of attacks by some of the toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help him collect it he had the assistance of an artful knife-wielder named Billy Hill...
Left Behind. Many a comer among young executives deliberately tries to keep his bride at home, apart from any contact with business associates. He may regret it, find that "when he nears the top and turns to his wife for assistance in advancing socially and consolidating his position, she is unable to help...
...about streamlining the state's cumbersome administrative machinery. He succeeded, but not without a hard fight that he partly brought upon himself. One of the members of the reorganization commission was regularly late to its meetings. Adams, who makes a fetish of punctuality, began railing at the late comer. The man was later on hand as majority leader of the state legislature to fight the reorganization at nearly every turn. From such political enemies, Adams earned the nickname "One-Term Sherm." He seemed, however, to do all right with the voters, and he was re-elected...
...final stages for the new-comer who has weathered the Stable and the Downbeat is the Five O' Clock Club, a purple-dark oblong room rebounding with modern jazz compositions. Although depending entirely on the interest a beginner shows in this local appreciation tour it may normally take several months before a college student brought up on two-beat Dixie, begins to feel the real "warmth" of Boston Jazz
...rapid ascension came partly because Tammany was torn by factionalism, partly because of his capacity for work and his attention to political details, partly because the late Bronx Leader Ed Flynn, the real power in New York politics during Tammany's dog days, spotted De Sapio as a comer. Says Julie McArdle, who was Flynn's secretary for 20 years and is now De Sapio's: "I remember Mr. Flynn saying Mr. De Sapio was the only Tammany leader he could sit down with since Mr. Murphy, and not have to talk out of the side...