Word: shill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life and death of one of California's most celebrated criminals (TIME. June 13, 1955), is a woman who likes to find things out for herself. At 25, she has found out what it is like to be a vagrant, a prostitute, a gambler's shill, a convicted perjurer who has already served a total of three years in prison. At 30, according to California's public prosecutor, she finds out about murder-by pistol-whipping an old woman to death in the course of an unsuccessful robbery...
...casual acquaintance of Papa's, a gambling-house shill, lures him to the roulette table, and the cops raid the joint. Poor Papa is booked at the station, and the boy must run home to fetch his identification card. From the sight of his mother in the midst of a difficult accouchement, the notion of the pushcart peddler is banished. All that remains for the boy to do is get Mama to the hospital, spring Papa from the jug, and reunite the whole gang in time for the birth of baby sister...
...Beach (Universal). "Come away with me to Los Angeles!" the wealthy widow (Judith Evelyn) implores. Her hands wander idly over the alluring mass of rented muscle that lies sprawled upon her divan. Alas, no cash, no mash. To make ends meet, Jeff Chandler has hired out as a sex shill to a couple of confidence gamesters at a California seashore resort, and when the lady starts pinching pennies. Jeff stops pinching her. He just picks up his muscles and walks out. That same night the lady dies. "I'm sorry," says Jeff, and waits a full 24 hours -whether...
...Yorker, lined up a cameraman and a producer-the Mirror's former assistant news editor, Jim Peck. He called his show Confidential File and set out to find some offbeat stories. He did not have to search far. His first show exposed the B-girl (barroom shill) racket in Los Angeles. Since then Coates has run programs on a homosexual (who freely showed his face on the program and was fired from his job the next day), shoplifters in action, a narcotics addict, a hypnotized woman, singing Brahms's Lullaby, giving birth to a baby...
That was in 1936. Namatjira learned so fast that within a few months he had sold his first watercolor. Price: five shill ings. By 1945 his pictures were so much in demand that 43 watercolors in a Sydney show were sold in 20 minutes, for nearly...