Word: conning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...must use all the latest preicate adjectives: "lunch," "shoe," "the most." You should show your sense of humor by giggling when you say something cute. And above all, you lose the game if you con less calling her because you think she's your type. You should appear at least to want to give her fun and laughs--dates, not tete-a-tetes...
Last month a strike flared when the commission blackballed John McLoughlin, an I.L.A. pier boss and an ex-con (13 years in Sing Sing), arrested at various times for burglary, assault, gun-toting and bookmaking. A fortnight ago, despite court injunctions and its contract, the I.L.A. shut down the whole port-without a strike vote or any formal demands. Union leaflets demanded that the Waterfront Commission show a "humane approach towards men with police records." State governments of New York and New Jersey stood pat behind the commission. Last week, after eight days on strike, the I.L.A. settled...
...Europe. Beginning a tour that will include the Continent for the first time since Arturo Toscanini took it abroad 25 years ago, the orchestra got the gladdest welcome and the biggest raves any orchestra has ever had at the Edinburgh Festival. The press was more pro than con. Sample pro: the Manchester Guardian's Neville Gardus noted that the scherzo of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 4 "received a performance which frankly left me ... speechless with wonder and admiration." Not so pro: John Warrack of the London Daily Telegraph found the same symphony played with "appalling force, shrieking with...
...lunch, Via Veneto troops off to the Capriccio, where Ingrid Bergman, Gloria Swanson or Marta Toren may be sighted among a scattering of princelings, or the Colony Club, run by an Italian-American from Long Island who features hamburgers, chili con carne and "Mrs. Wagner's baked beans," all recipes drawn from Macy's Cooking Encyclopedia...
...Con Game. In Salt Lake City. Brigham Krause complained to the embarrassed County Commission that the 700-by-50-ft. piece of tax-delinquent property he had bought for $100 turned out to be a section of a county roadway...