Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Mother's. Same con game: two U.S. soldiers showed up at a farmhouse, carrying a dead, half-plucked chicken, told the sympathetic farm wife that it was a long time since they had had chicken "like mother used to fix." She cooked the chicken for them, served it on her best china and linen with vegetables, cake and precious butter of her own. After the boys had uttered their profuse thanks and departed, she found that the chicken had been taken from her own henhouse...
...owned a small plane in which the Reyes traveled from date to date. Raul & Eva live in a five-room apartment just off Manhattan's Central Park. Eva, very much of a homebody despite her appearance, used to make all her own clothes, cooks gigantic dinners of arroz con polio for massive gatherings of friends. The Reyes have an eight-year-old son named Angel. When asked his name, he invariably doubles up his fists, juts out his jaw and growls "Angel, wanna make somethin' of it?" Raul speaks perfect American, smokes big cigars and worries about...
...bill debate. They have been brought to a boil by the Supreme Court decision. Now they face a bill authored by New York's Communistic Vito Marcantonio. They are ready to oppose it with 1,000 amendments, no less-and with weeks on weeks of unrestrained oratory, pro & con everything in sight...
Private Hargrove's particular pals are a slick con man, Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), his bucktoothed, leering sidekick, Private Esty (George Offerman Jr.), and a solemn, proletarian, Private Burk (Bill Phillips). Private Burk tries to explain to Private Hargrove the puzzled sources of his patriotism, but Mulvehill and Esty simply gyp Hargrove right & left. As co-executives of a mythical Date Bureau, they sell him an evening with a girl (Donna Reed) who never heard of their scheme. They also form the Marion Hargrove Beneficial Association to raise funds for his New York furlough. The catch: he signs over...
...beautiful? ¿Es bella? No, es fea. No, she is ugly. Con una mujer hermosa en la oficina es dificil hacer trabajo. With a beautiful woman in the office, it is hard to do work...