Word: goldbricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book of the same name, the movie tells of a slightly slap-happy draftee who can never do the right thing. He salutes back sergeants and smiles benignly at majors and colonels. Hargrove! Clean those garbage cans! Hargrove, played by Robert Walker, falls into the company of an ace goldbrick, Keenan Wynn, whose shrewdness is exceeded only by his ability to make a sucker of Hargrove. As a result of the goldbrick's efforts, the hard luck private accidently acquires a sweetheart, is transferred to a soft job, and then rejoins his old company when he learns that they...
...soldiers, "Sad Sack" is the funniest little lug who ever got a typhus shot or tried to goldbrick out of a duty. Sad Sack, lugubrious comic-strip creation of onetime Disney Animator Sergeant George Baker, leads a life of misadventure in the Army's newspaper Yank. Soldier readers think Sad Sack is comical because he is so forlorn...
Stephen Dutton was always considered a very fast man with a dollar - preferably someone else's dollar. But in his prime, in the dim, goldbrick, 0. Henry era of gentle grafters, patent-medicine fakers, conmen and bunco artists, Steve the Swindler was regarded as especially expert in talking himself into funds and out of trouble. He ranked with Grand Central Pete and Paper Collar Joe, who were tops in bilking the rubes; for a time Steve Dutton was partner of the old master, Perrin Sumner, who was known in the Gay '90s as The Great American Identifier...