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...character as they are, and his impulses as they come, is death to moral progress . . . It is also disastrous to lead [a delinquent] to believe that he is more sinned against than sinning and to imply that strenuous moral effort on his own part is unnecessary. The maxim Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner is poison here...
...most popular songs on the Rocky Mountain air for the past fortnight has been a jingly little piece that Disk Jockey Ronnie McCoy of Denver's KFEL calls Tout Contraire. It sounds something like a Slavic folk tune sung by a crooner with the hiccups. McCoy describes it as a "new foreign import." Listeners, trying to identify it, have variously guessed it to be French, German, Russian...
During most of his stay at Cannes, Farouk appeared regularly at the casino at 10 p.m. Seating himself at the "tout va" (no limit) table, his hairy chest showing through the opened neck of his shirt, he would snap his fingers, and an attendant would place a stack of chips in front of His Majesty. He tossed in the square white discs, worth a million francs ($2,850) each, as though they were marbles, and when he won, he shouted "Je vous ai eu! [Got you!]," roaring with laughter. When he lost, he laughed too. Croupiers, whom he often left...
Investigations into the speed of one steed as opposed to another take place daily expecting Sunday at Suffolk Downs in Revere. While Suffolk may lack the quaint touts of Jamaica and the flamingoes at Hialeah, it nevertheless holds eight races a day at purses which assure at least that the entrants will be horses. If the sun is out and the luck is with you, an afternoon at Suffolk can be exceedingly pleasant; or course, it might rain, you might lose. C'est tout pour le sport...
...racetrack tout known as the Lemon Drop Kid, Hope finds himself in a nasty jam when he gives a sour tip to a racketeer (Fred Clark). To square the bum steer, the gangster demands 1) $10,000 or 2) Hope's life, payable by Christmas. Hope hatches a scheme to raise the money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning...