Word: tinhorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written in about a gambling place where his father generally lost his weekly paycheck. Said the Mayor: "George, I'm going to put a policeman in that store. You just keep me informed, and other little boys who see the family happiness destroyed because some thieving tinhorn is robbing his daddy of money on horse races or gambling also please let me know. I won't tell anybody that you told me the place, but I'll send the police there...
Last week Tropical opened with unprecedented fanfare. The Whitneys, the Wideners, the Woodwards and even Mrs. Shipwreck Kelly (Brenda Frazier) rubbed elbows with the turf's tinhorn sports. Reason: Florida's "friendly track" was recently purchased by a group of polo-playing, hunt-club socialites headed by Baltimorean Henry L. Straus. M.F.H., and the millionaire Munns (Gurnee and Charles Alexander) of Washington, Palm Beach and Paris...
...Name is Aram. Effortless, delicate and slightly boozy, the little tales carry a sense of comic-poetic anarchy whose only name is Saroyan. For those who get the hang of it, there are several solid miracles of literary slack-wire walking. There is less of the brassiness and tinhorn rhetoric with which he usually destroys his effects. There is more self-effacing attention to business than usual. Saroyan will always be a question of taste; but another book or two, and he may also be one of the best and most original writers alive...