Word: tinhorns
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...Gunfighter Wyatt Earp, based on interviews with Earp before his death in 1929, sold half a million copies, inspired two movies and the TV series, established its author as an authority on the Old West despite stuffier historians' sniffs that it was "a fictionalized glorification of a tinhorn outlaw"; of a ruptured aorta; in San Diego, Calif...
...river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey is, for what seems like the four-score-and-tenth time, Abraham Lincoln. Gregory Peck is a tinhorn gambler, Robert Preston a roaring wagon master, Henry Fonda a walrus-mustached buffalo hunter...
...this capable cinema adaptation, is sure to touch the spectator's heart. Unhappily, the answer to the question hits the customer in the kisser like a supersaturated crying towel. But to some extent the performances make up for the plot. Gleason has the loud uncertain blare of a tinhorn who can't face the music. Julie Harris, as a U.S. Employment Service counselor, suggests with diffident charm that the U.S.E.S. of adversity can sometimes be sweet. And Quinn, though his dese and his dose and his freeform nose get tiresome after awhile, nevertheless gives a heartfelt interpretation...
...remotest stars, Pixie Pundit David Brinkley confessed that he had finally become reconciled to autograph hounds. "Except," he backslid, "when I'm out somewhere with my children. I don't want them to get the idea their father is some kind of tinhorn celebrity-at least not until they're old enough to realize that this is an ephemeral, transitory, shallow and not very important kind of fame that can and will disappear even faster than it arrived...
...accepting U.S. tractors in exchange for prisoners taken in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. The U.S. dilemma: a strong sense of responsibility for the lives of the men captured in the U.S.-sponsored attack as balanced against a real repugnance for paying ransom money to such a tinhorn Commie as Fidel Castro...