Word: big-shot
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...betting figures) thought "the home, the neighborhood, the campus, the college" at fault for fostering "a crooked, distorted sense of values." The Chicago Tribune blamed it all on the New Deal. Manhattan's Daily Worker tied it in with "profiteering chairmen of Wall Street corporations, with bankers, big-shot politicians grabbing the war contracts...
...Small Hours (by George S. Kaufman & Leueen MacGrath; produced by Max Gordon) is 26 scenes worth of life among big-shot Manhattan intellectuals. It displays them at sleek dinner parties, in cabs and sport cars, in offices and boudoirs, at smart restaurants and resorts. It shows them two-timing and double-crossing, ladling out flattery, dishing up scandal. It portrays in particular the Mitchell family-a brilliant, middle-aged publisher (Paul McGrath), his selfish daughter, his muddled son, and his wife Laura (Dorothy Stickney), who is clumsy and crushed in a world at once beyond and beneath her. But Laura...
Every day at Charlie Binaggio's First District Democratic Club on Truman Road in Kansas City, boon seekers ran a gauntlet of stony-faced hoodlums, sought their favors of the gimlet-eyed man sitting beneath the bare light bulb behind the bare desk. Charlie was a political big-shot in Jackson County, President Truman's home county. He had 30,000 votes in his pocket. He boasted that he controlled 40 state legislators, that he had elected Governor Forrest Smith. But Charlie Binaggio, who looked deceptively like a mild and prosperous chiropodist, made a mistake which...
...speakers' table was aglow with the beaming faces of the President and Vice President, Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle & wife, Mrs. 0. Max Gardner, widow of the late Under Secretary of the Treasury, Lever Bros.' Ex-President Charles Luckman and fourscore or more Cabinet officers, governors and big-shot Democrats from coast to coast. The 523 tables at which 5,300 ordinary diners sat, elbow to elbow on folding chairs, were fitted out with red, white, blue or starred tablecloths, thus creating a huge facsimile of a U.S. flag...
...blank, discovered Jim's little embellishments and charged him with making fraudulent statements. It wasn't that Jim hadn't done a bang-up job all the way. It was just about like Jim Glynn had always figured-no one would believe he could be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...