Word: swindlers
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...knows that her unspoiled naturalness is precisely what makes her Pier Angeli. Hence the studio's orders against gilding the lily: no eyebrow plucking, no greasepaint lathering for stills, no hair-dyeing or publicity whirls. Pier's next assignment: the part of a painter who regenerates a swindler (Stewart Granger) in The Light Touch, to be filmed in Tunis and Sicily...
...this had been bruising enough to her spirits. While admitting that she could do "anything" on a stage, including "wiggling my ears," she was really a poetic type who hoped some day to do Shakespeare. But Sidney's getting himself in jail as a swindler had almost been the end of Rosemary. "I never knew he was in an illegal business," she cried, with a revealing confession that seemed to explain all: "He told me he was a gambler...
...second time in seven weeks, U.S. railway unions used a swindler's trick in their tangled, two-year contract fight. The key switchmen who make up trains in pivotal rail yards began reporting sick again in droves-first in Chicago and Detroit, then in dozens of other cities, east, west and south, around the nation. The effect was even more devastating than it was last December when Christmas packages piled...
...love is a steady thread through this tapestry of change. It is for a confidence man, named Bonser, a loud and promiscuous swindler with a flair for spending money, a blackguard whose interest in Tabitha lies squarely in her pocketbook. He seduces Tabitha and fails to marry her, yet he appears again and again through her marriage and divorce to bounce her on his knee and ask for a pound or two. She gives him the money and more than that, for Bonser is Tabitha's personal revolt, and her only consistent pleasure...
...then, U.S. cant has grown so rapidly that today it is "numerically larger than the British"-and still so wildly prolific that just before his book went to press, hardworking Lexicographer Partridge ordered a batch of addenda bound in to catch such sprouts, new to him, as winchell (a swindler's victim), boodled (loaded with cash), cooties' reveille (lights-out in the cells), hoochie-papping (stealing another man's girl), goof ball (marijuana smoker) and mouse-kick (watch-pocket...