Word: swag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imitator of NBC's successful The Price Is Right, is perhaps the most artful personification of greed among the new crop of grab-the-swag shows. Hosted by Cyclonic Ham Bert Parks in the guise of an auctioneer, the show parcels out $5,000 in cash to each of four contestants to bid for the clues they wish to buy. The clues, in the form of rhymed couplets ("Morning, noon and night, you'll find me tight") may help the player guess the identity of an object silhouetted behind a scrim curtain (in this case, an electric light...
...Chaplin, now in self-exile in Switzerland. A day later, for his "extraordinary service" in behalf of the Kremlin, Chaplin, along with Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, was awarded a peace prize (value: about $14,000) by the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council. Charlie, who planned to carve up the swag among peace lovers in London, Geneva and Vienna, was "very pleased," but a friend of the family reported that Charlie's fourth wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, for reasons best known to herself, "seemed not so enthusiastic...
...days later, the old man, the young girl and the dowager meet in Nice to split the swag and plan their next job: selling the hotel they are staying in. From here out. the progress of the three gentle grafters from riches to rags is an amusing little elegy on the good old days before the big villains put all the nice little crooks out of business. Actor Squire, a master of the mumble-and-ndget school of British comedy, makes a roguish old rogue, and James Hayter, as the man who buys the hotel, does a preposterously funny caricature...
...robber with the bank swag made a run for it as a confederate yelled: "Go on! Go on! Take to the woods! We'll deal with these fellows!" Alas, poor thief, he was up against no common adversary. He had tangled with none other than Tom Swift...
...impaled himself on a spiked railing, and the other fell 40 feet with $32,000 in jewels in his pocket and grimly crawled two miles before dying. Having brought off six jewelry hauls worth some $120,000, Delaney was bagged in his own flat with most of the swag...