Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note that rubber garter snakes did not keep pigeons away from the courthouse ledges in West Palm Beach [TIME, July.10...
This was no mean tribute. Few states have done as much as Florida in demonstrating how smoothly the law can be thwarted-Miami, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach usually provide every kind of gambling during the winter season and have attracted throngs of money-heavy racketeers as residents. Still, it was interesting to discover that Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren had been elected to office on a campaign fund of no less than $462,000-$154,000 of it provided (in spite of a law forbidding political contributions by racetrack operators) by a dog-track owner...
Well, did the rubber garter snakes (TIME, June 12) keep the pigeons away from the West Palm Beach courthouse ledges...
Always, hotly competitive bartering went on, for such esoteric regionalia as jars of muddy water in which the U.S.S. Missouri had floundered off Virginia, Oklahoma snakewhips and Ford emblems missing from state police cars. The best traders, reported one, were from Texas; the worst, from Illinois ("you can palm off anything on those jerks"). Four Nebraska kids convinced some city slickers that sandburs were really porcupine eggs, and sold them...
...evaluate the wisdom of America. Along with his own running commentary, he has gotten together a narcotic collection of bromides from reputable pens; if it proves anything, it proves only that a bromide looks a lot better clothed in a mandarin coat than it does in a Palm Beach suit...