Word: piker
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...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...
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...