Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...architect's concept," Weld declared, "is unfortunately completely out of proportion to any suggestions the Council ever made and to any actual need. It is too bad that the Council members responsible for the report on which the architects based their plans and their subsequent estimates were never con-consulted...
Harvard and Yale debaters will meet in a home-and-home double contest Friday to discuss, pro and con, the possible re-election of President, Truman in 1948, Robert M. Beren '47, president of the Debate Council announced yesterday. At the same time, Beren outlined plans for coming wrangles with Dartmouth and Oxford University...
...large ham; some imported canned peanuts, hamburger and chile con carne; Dolan's butter and fat ration for the week; all cigars and cigarettes; some French and Swiss chocolate (he scorned some American Hershey bars); several bottles of rye and Noilly Prat vermouth; some razor blades; eight suits; pajamas, shirts; two dozen towels, bed sheets; portable typewriters, clocks; and all of Dolan's soap. He wasted no time on the flat's expensive furniture, paintings and silver...
...Button Shoes (book by Stephen Longstreet; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; produced by Monte Proser and Joseph Kipness) isn't a specially good show, but it's pretty often a gay one. A period musical (1913), it spins an amiably undisciplined yarn about a con man and his stooge (Phil Silvers and Joey Faye) who sell waterlogged real estate in New Brunswick, N.J., flee to Atlantic City, sneak back for a Rutgers-Princeton game, at the end are earnestly seeking fresh frauds and pitches...
Lundeberg added: "He doesn't give you a lot of sweet con like a lot of these others...