Word: punk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual profit of $3,000,000. But in 1934. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered the machines seized, personally banged up dozens of them with a sledge hammer while photographers recorded his prowess. He also called fellow Italian and longtime admirer Frank Costello a bum, a tinhorn gambler, and a punk. That was the end of Tru-Mint and of Costello's regard for the Little Flower...
...Marcus Goodrich. Hollywood knew little about him, except that he had written one Kiplingesque novel (Delilah), and had been married four times. She was 30, he 48. "I can't understand it," said one of her friends recently. "What has this guy got? If he was some young punk who just bowled her over . . . But how, how could this happen...
Greenburg turned state's evidence. Moe, Gail and Miller were charged with armed robbery. Gail pleaded guilty, then attempted suicide. Last week, Moe the gonif and Miller, his hired punk, were convicted. Yiddish for thief...
After winning the finals against Tom Brown (both of them thought they had played badly), Big Jake went to King George's box to receive the royal congratulations. As he walked toward the box he thought to himself, "Here I am, a young punk from California. . . ." But was he nervous? "No. I looked at the King the same way he looked at me. ... I guess both of us figured the other was pretty good in his own line." Said London's Daily Telegraph of Big Jake: "The only one of the postwar generation who could have lived...
Young was a runt of a boy with a large head and orange-colored hair. Inevitably, he was called "Punk" (short for "punkin-head"). Because of his initials, one prophetic friend called him "Railroad." As a boy, Young learned how to ride horses, handle guns and use his wits to compensate for his lack of bulk...