Word: piker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mann: Why be a piker? Let's ... see who's champion of the United States...
...mind it when applied to Al Capone, but these gentlemen do not like to hear it applied to what a Senate committee has disclosed about certain great New York fiduciaries. Why. the truth is, in the light of these developments, that Al Capone was a poor ignorant Sicilian piker...
...Coughlin's bitterest vitriol was reserved for Edward Douglas Stair, former president of Detroit Bankers Co., one of the two holding companies-"Detroit Looters' Co." to Father Coughlin. Also publisher of the Free Press, Mr. Stair directs a running editorial barrage against Father Coughlin. "Insull was a piker to E. D. Stair," yelled the priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower, who in October will resume his Sunday broadcasts over 27 stations, and who plans to expand his "Children's Hour" to seven stations...
...thick grey hair rumpled, his face twisted into a wry smile, Bear Brush announced: "I'm going to be shot when I get back to New York." Senator Brookhart: Have they got rackets like Al Capone up there? Mr. Brush: Al Capone is a piker compared to that racket...