Word: schmo
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...billion endowment into $4.6 billion--not too shabby. HMC avoided the 1987 stock market crash, but missed the boom which followed it as well. Over the period from June 1985 to June 1995, Harvard's annual return was only 13 percent. The Wall Street Journal has commented, "Any schmo could easily have beaten that simply plunking cash down into a lowcost mutual fund that mimics the behavior of Standard & Poor's 500-stock index." Moreover, for fiscal year 1995, the endowment returned 16.8 percent, a fairly paltry rate compared to the S&P's return of 26.1 percent...
...your Congressman or your Senator or to your Governor, not to some schmo." He found the welcome warmest among politicians to whose campaigns he had contributed, and "always supported my friends as I could within my means." A sample of how hard he would work for "one of my very dear friends" came in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1952. when Democratic Incumbent Paul A. Dever ("May God rest his soul") was being attacked by the Boston Post. Goldfine's simple effort: he extended a $400,000 line of credit to the paper's owner, capricious Boy Wonder...
...Randall: two better synonyms for "schnook" would be 1) jerk, and 2) schmo...
...bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also babytalk, I am stealing him away. For 20 years already he is mine husband Pierre. Crime does not pay!" Pierre, who now is never seen (or heard) in the Alley, is a luckless "schmo" who plays the ponies at "Epstein Downs" and "Hia-Levy." He is so unlucky that "if it is raining borsch outside, Pierre will be standing with a fork. He will also missing the potato...