Word: tinhorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse-racing fan, from the paddock-club swell to the tinhorn sport, which track he would choose if he could visit only one before he dies, and nine out of ten answers are: Saratoga...
...interest mainly to aficionados of America's native rhythm, the Goodman biography provides a play-by-play account of the only jazz artist who, without once compromising with tinhorn commercialism, battled his way up from tootling in a synagogue to running his own band. The book also functions as a sort of Who's Who in hot music. In his 20 years in the business, Goodman has worked with or heard and known all the best players...
TIME Inc. need not worry that "good U. S. citizens" are condemning it for giving space to World Peaceways advertisements, even the "HELLO SUCKER" ad which prompted that tinhorn outburst from the Legion's ballyhoo director. Rather, "good U. S. citizens stand . . . united" in applauding the timely courage and vision that has prompted World Peaceways, assisted by FORTUNE et al., to picture the stark horror of war and what it does to those who fall its victims...
...admirer is Michael Harrison (John Boles), a millionaire who subsidizes her Greenwich Village cronies to prove to her that they are no-goods. True Merrill is grateful to Harrison but miserably disillusioned. Her only consolation is the fact that a publisher admires her first novel. A bombastic tirade against tinhorn esthetes, clumsily written and woodenly directed, I Believed in You is noteworthy solely because its 26-year-old leading lady, if she possesses the energy and ability shown by other members of her family, may get somewhere some day. Rosemary Ames's father was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, famed...