Word: tinhorns
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...football, headlines still went to Alvin Paris, a tinhorn gambler who entertained players with partying chorus girls, and tried to fix the National League's championship game between the Bears and the Giants (TIME, Dec. 23). He was due to be sentenced next week...
...football, the attempted bribery of two of the Giants' players (TIME, Dec. 23) was a different matter. The newspapers played it as the worst scandal since the "Black" Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Alvin Paris, the tinhorn gambler who tried to fix last fortnight's pro football championship game, was still in jail. Who was behind him? The papers hinted darkly of a big-time Jersey gambling ring, which was not above fixing prize fights and college basketball games...
Most of the work in the exhibit was done after the first of Remington's countless western tours. He made the trip at 19, on feet still tender from a year at Yale. He got his first callus when a tinhorn took him for his last cent. He added blisters working as clerk, ranch cook and cowhand. Finally he joined (as a correspondent) the fight against the Apache chief Geronimo...
Benito Mussolini was the posthumous victim of some inside dopery. Myriam Petacci, sister of his last mistress, Clara, who was killed with him, declared that Benny was really rather a tinhorn. "He was very nice to her and sent her lots of love notes and flowers," she said, "but Clara got very little money from him, and the jewels were paste...
...Without exception, G.I.'s most dislike tinhorn war and home-front heroics...