Word: conned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cases with national interest and made the most of the attendant publicity. Earl Warren's work as district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley) was less spectacular. But in a state where most gang-busting is done on movie lots, he sent droves of bootleggers, con men, grafters and corrupt city officials packing off to jail...
...receiving these applications the Council will mail out topics for the speech. Tradition is being broken in that in place of a formal debate at the tryout, the candidate will make a five-minute speech discussing the assigned topic, pro or con, from the point of view of the first speaker...
Daley once admired Con the Greyhound for giving the wind a head start and then beating it, and Shaun the Bullock, who could hold himself out at arm's length. But Finn was faster than one, stronger and defter than the other. Concluded Daley: "Bad cess to those who doubt...
Died. Patrick Austin ("Paddy") Nash, 80, both Nash and dash of Chicago's famed Kelly-Nash political machine; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Son of an Irish immigrant contractor, short, derbied Nash moved early to the West Side, whose con trol he gradually took over from his political tutor, the 28th (then 14th) Ward's famed Roger Sullivan. Until nearly...
...Con You Top This? is predicated on the sure-fire principle that every man has an irresistible urge to tell his favorite wheeze. The program is nothing but jokes, good, bad and indifferent, and there is nothing quite like it on the U.S. air. Some 10,000,000 steady listeners send in an average 10,000 jokes (90% of them unusable) a week. Four or five are chosen and told on the program by red-haired Peter Donald, actor and dialectitian. The decibels of laughter from the studio audience are registered on a "laughmeter." After each joke the Senator...