Word: piker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis B. Mayer would love to make a piker out of Alfred Nobel. So it was natural that when M.-G.-M. handed out a prize for a novel Louis Mayer did not stop at a mere $30,000 to $40.000 (the Nobel Prizes vary). He made it a flat $125,000-plus a bonus of up to $50,000 if the book becomes a bestseller...
...night he trips boyishly through the Common and says a Lieutenant (j.g.) lolling coeducationally on a park bench. So like it says in the book, he salutes, cheerfully, willingly, and briskly, no piker he. So the j.g. unwinds his wary arm and returns our hero's eager "good evening, sir" with a cheerful, willing, briks...
...Some of these youngsters were going westward on one of my trips on the Trans-Siberian. Their pockets bulged with cash. They drank vodka before breakfast and champagne with their meals. The meals alone cost $4 in American money - I was a piker in such company...
...South. When former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio bought the Atlanta Journal last year (TIME, Dec. 25), he offered Editor Hall $10,000 a year-fabulous salary for a Southern editor-and a $25,000 stock interest to leave the Advertiser, move to Atlanta. Publisher Hudson, no piker, heard of the offer, promptly met it, making 52-year-old Grover Hall probably the best-paid editor in the South...
Only six weeks away last week was a new Congress, and Martin Dies, never a piker, was ready to ask this time for a $1,000,000 appropriation. To earn his million, Dies produced a bigger show than ever. From Los Angeles to Chicago his agents brought Heinrich Peter Fassbender, alias Harry Smith, 23, a dark, smiling youth who claimed to have worked as a Gestapo agent for five years in Belgium, Spain and the U. S. Young Alien Fassbender, said Dies, was "sensational" in secret hearings...