Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first skit, "Hungry in the Park," begins in the Chaplin vein, a hungry loafer trying to con a meal off passersby. When his begging proves unsuccessful, the tramp discovers how surprisingly delicious his fingernail tastes, and then eagerly dines on the fingers of his left hand. But before desert, the men in the white coats drag the tramp away, which is not funny...
...Broadway musical Bajour, Chita Rivera, 35, plays a crafty gypsy con-girl dedicated to the gentle art of separating suckers from their cash. And who should be picked to lure loot-laden tourists to the New York World's Fair when it opens next week? Of course. Naming the hot-eyed Latin actress New York City's official summer hostess, Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, cooed: "Chita Rivera symbolizes in a wonderful way the warm welcome we want to extend to each of our guests." Fair warning...
...ever been north of North Carolina, and he was uncertain about where to go at that time of the night. He and Pilcher left their room in the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, went out onto the street and soon ran into a Negro named James ("Race Horse") Edwards, a con man with a 14-page police record, much of it for the Murphy game...
...some strange tricks. All of Selma, in fact the entire nation, has been flimflammed by the so-called civil rights movement for more than ten weeks. Then I went to Washington to televise the real truth of the Selma story and we got taken by a glib-tongued Negro con...
...Murphy game" is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips. It was named after an Irishman who was arrested many times for perpetrating such tricks...