Word: shyster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gilded Ghetto." When Margie is not coping with her dilemma, she is occupied with shyster theatrical producers, a pedestrian suitor named Dr. Shapiro, and the diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly...
...millionaire) for $300,000 on grounds that disfiguring injuries have ruined her daughter's budding career as a beauty queen and TV star. But two unexpected witnesses make depositions to set things right. Author Pratt lays on the human gore and displays a nice nose for human greed-shyster lawyers, crooked photographers and assorted vultures circling a big cash settlement. Probably the most absorbing safety lecture since J.C. Furnas'-And Sudden Death...
...supporting cast is uniformly competent, with Herbert Lom turning in a superlative bit as a Peter Lorretype Balkan shyster who smuggles Fairbanks out of the country...
...Shyster" & "Spoiled Child." The delegate-hungry Taftmen, obeying the Biblical injunction to forgive their enemies seventy times seven times, have clasped Hallanan to their bosoms once more, and this time they expect him to stay clasped. As temporary chairman, Hallanan will take the gavel a few moments after National Chairman Guy Gabrielson raps the convention to order on July 7, and will preside until after the keynote. He will be in charge when the convention adopts rules and seats contested delegates, when his rulings might be disastrous to the Eisenhower forces. Theoretically, a ruling of the chairman can be reversed...
...umpire we'll have a man who is already a player in the game." Campaign Manager Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. speculated that he might take a megaphone to Chicago, in case Hallanan refused to let Ikemen use the microphones. Taftmen on the arrangements committee, said Lodge, had used "shyster tactics...