Word: tinhorns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a long, tinhorn odyssey in exile, Tom comes back to Paris and finds himself a wife. But boredom draws him into the arms of a mistress, who gives him excitement, trouble and baby Paul in short order, together with an urge to confess his shortcomings: "As for marks . . . zero, zero, zero-in conduct, in morality...
...Policeman Heflin, a tinhorn opportunist, wants her husband's money, too. He engineers a way to kill him in the line of duty by mistaking him for a prowler. Then he succeeds in convincing a court, the dead man's brother and even the remorseful widow that the murder was a tragic accident. She consents to marry him. But when Bridegroom Heflin puts together the brother's knowledge that the dead man was sterile and his bride's happy announcement that she expects a child, he quickly realizes that the sum is more than scandalous...
Carroll, who made a great show of earnest interest, was treated with vast politeness, too. (Said one baffled spectator: "They act like they was trying to give him the Congressional Medal.") But pudgy, fat-necked Gambler Frank Erickson, once assailed by the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia as a "tinhorn and punk," ran into trouble. Enraged when Erickson, for approximately the twelfth time, insisted on his "constitutional rights," Senator McFarland yelled: "You're your own crime syndicate, aren...