Word: piker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alongside Michael Ambrose Mahoney, Paul Bunyan was a dim and legendary piker. Klondike Mike, the greatest of the mushers, the sourdough who struck it rich and kept his poke, is a living legend. Last week when Klondike Mike, at 74, announced in Ottawa that he was leaving Canada to settle in Los Angeles for his health, newspapers wrote dew-eyed editorials, hoped "his shade [would] be long in growing less...
...Pike was just a piker-he didn't even get to the top of his own mountain...
...political parties, "American Action" has fond its place rather conspicuous in the Republican sun. In the Illinois congressional elections, for instance, Chairman Hayes has shared levels of demagoguery with Governor Green in attacks on Democratic candidates in all six districts awaiting decision today. And not content to be a piker or a hypocrite, Hayes has echoed the "Chicago Tribune" in its daily harangues against Henry Wallace and the Truman administration...
Plato Was a Piker. Modern Atlanteans go far beyond Plato, peopling their imaginary lands with super-cultured inhabitants. Greatest extender of the Atlantis myth: Author James Churchward, who invented the "lost continent of Mu" in the Pacific. Its inhabitants, the originators of civilization, colonized Atlantis 20,000 years ago. Their ships entered the "Amazon Sea" through a canal cut through the Andes Mountains, then in the puppy stage. Other Muvian colonies: Egypt, Greece, the Mayans...
Said a detective, eyeing a "gold" pile worth 30 millions: "Zut! Next to him, Uncle Philibert was a piker...