Word: shill
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...Prince Albert opened London's Great Exhibition in 1851, there have been dozens of "world's fairs." Some have left unforgettable landmarks (most notably, the Eiffel Tower from Paris' Exposition in 1889); some have simply left scars (the dilapidated architectural skeletons and sour aftertaste from the shill's paradise that was New York's 1964-65 fair). Only a handful have come near equaling the majesty of Brussels' classic production...
...story pointed out, Jackie has been the victim of a noisome tide of gossip stories in movie mags and Confidential-type rags. Month after month, Jackie's picture, and often Caroline's, has been splashed on the covers of such magazines. Teaser cover headlines are calculated to shill breathless readers into thinking that they will learn about the most intimate recesses of Jackie's life. The articles inside never live up to the billing. Samples...
...popular with Wisconsin's Swiss-Americans. At the climax, the Swiss hero draws his bow with fervor, shoots the apple from his son's head (the boy nods on cue, the apple falls, he leans over and picks up another one hidden in the grass with a shill arrow in it). In the audience, half the town roars with pride-the other half is in the play...
...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...