Word: piker
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...Devil. Lionel Barrymore's appearance in any show is a signal for a certain quantity of thanksgiving. With his three shows this year-The Piker, Taps, and Man or Devi]-the quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately...
...Piker!" said Mr. Day, "Come higher...
...could prevent depression and maintain prosperity at least until after election day. A third school maintained that large interests wished to stir up a good market in order to liquidate securities likely to decline further next year. All agreed, how ever, that, if manipulation was responsible, it was no "piker's game," that substantial financial interests had seriously committed themselves...
...false hair like we see advertised, her somewhat perfect nose would scarce be noticed to have been turned up, owing to sleeping on her stomach". At the same time "she was just a lowborn girl, but none could beat her at playing the piano". And Mr. Withersq is no piker. He crashes right into a Bohemian festival the first night out, visits the exotic "Mauve Loft" the next morning and by evening has been officially appointed Head Poet of England...
...Love Piker. We don't know quite which is more tiresome? watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued...