Word: piker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything but her dark glasses in Manhattan, suggests early in Truman Capote's bestselling Breakfast at Tiffany's (TIME, Nov. 3) that a man who gives his date less than $50 for a powder-room tip is a cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion of privacy...
...Society picked as committee heads; Kevin O'Connell '55 of Winthrop, Athletic Committee, Clark A McCartney '55 of Adams, University Committee, William Coakley '55 of Lowell, Freshman Orientation Committee, and Fred K. Piker '54 of Winthrop, Schools Committee...
...issue. Tacked on are two little news items, printed with appropriate comments. One of these shows a deplorable lack of taste, and it is surprising that the Lampoon decided to print it. The poems are Henry Ziegler's The Lower Depths and Osborne's Joseph Was a Piker. Neither is funny...
...with the umbrella was a piker. Fifteen million Czechs, he felt, was not too great a price to pay for "peace for our time." Take Herbert Hoover now, on the other hand, he conceives things on a far more grandiose scale. In order to buy a small but unknown number of years of uneasy peace for the Americas, he is perfectly willing to let all other peoples of the world disappear into abject slavery behind the Iron Curtain...
...following other members were elected to represent their halls: Howard Shurdut, Paul Palmbaum of Dudley; Eben J. Cross of Grays: Noal K. Jones, Joseph W. Mitchell of Hellis; Daniel J. Collius, Jr., Frederick K. Piker of Helworty; Richard C. Hermann of Lionel: Richard I. Brener of Matthews; Arthur L. Fine, Robert F. Plaxco, Jr. of Stoughton...