Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Is Dark (Warner) is a cops & robbers movie that captures some of the hard-hitting realism of the early-'30s gangster pictures. It spins a familiar yarn about a reformed ex-con (well played by Hoofer Gene Nelson in a nondancing role) whose past catches up with him when an escaped San Quentin prisoner (Ted De Corsia) tries to force him to join in a bank heist. This time the cop is a hard-eyed, tough-fisted police sergeant (Sterling Hayden...
...where blood flowed almost as freely as beer. Grandma lived near by, pretending to be deaf yet privy to every racket within miles. Wilma had eight children, none legitimate. Fred, during a turn at the reform school, ate a tin of nails to spite the superintendent. Clarrie was a con man and the family intellectual: "It's a sort of poetry," he said, "to read over the names of race horses...
...second period was rough enough, with three penalties called, two on Harvard, but despite several furries, neither team could manage a score. Again Picard's saves made the difference, with McNammara's stalwart defensive play con- tributing
...Table has long aroused college men both pro and con. The sight of a group of tuxedoed men eating better food on a raised platform has stirred the democratic ire, of many a student. The Table's opponents claim that it is a snobbish piece of showiness, while its defenders say that it is a good way of bringing together the House staff and undergraduates...
...been dealt foul, Rolfe cursed the Church and went on cursing it energetically for the rest of his life-while remaining a Catholic. He borrowed a title, Baron Corvo, took it to Scotland and began to dine out in great pretension. The canny Scots, however, would not con. Soon he was back on his rent, and the landlord meant business. "They entered the Baron's bedroom," ran an account in the Aberdeen Free Press, "and the Baron was given ten minutes to dress and clear...