Word: conning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paulists Pro & Con...
...Department of Music will probably offer the non-musician next year a new course, "Theory for the non-Con-centrator," John M. Ward, chairman of the Department, disclosed yesterday...
...showmanship. It also achieves a sustained swinging tempo; as his own triumvirate, Willson escapes all the Stop and Go, the Detour and Closed for Repairs signs of musicomedy collaborations. Boasting a brisk production, and in Robert Preston a delightful star, this 1912 tale of an itinerant con man, a musical ignoramus who invades an Iowa town posing as a bandleader, has unrationed, oldfashioned, bring-the-whole-family high spirits...
Sylvia Wright's book has a misleading title. Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts is not about the Joys of Christmas; it is a book of social criticism disguised under a title calculated to con the unsuspecting Christmas shopper...
Anti-Prohibitionist (illegal beer and hooch) Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 59, in stir since 1933 for the Chicago snatch of Con Man John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, drew closer to freedom. Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton cut Touhy's 99-year stretch to 72 years, thus making Terrible eligible for springing in August...