As a child, he studied "The Big Bankroll," a biography of the gangster Arnold Rothstein.
He turned to Lawrence V. Ray, a friend of a few years, who had an engaging manner and a big bankroll.
There, especially in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where lower rents have encouraged an influx of arty postcollegiates, dating success doesn't require a big bankroll or blinding beauty.
'Compromise is for losers - fucking nobodies,' he tells the admiring Bobbie, but for all his big bankroll and Cadillac, Mel is a loser.
Maria's New York press release told a Cinderella story with a twist: that she was sacrificing the promise of a big career for the promise of a big bankroll.
So I wanted to flash a big bankroll, fan myself with it and then, when I said, "Hello, gang!," throw it up in the air as I launched into song.
HOUSTON -- Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison had all the advantages a year ago when she laid her plans to run for governor: a high popularity rating, a party shaken by President Obama's victory, a big bankroll and, most important, the backing of influential Republicans, who felt the incumbent governor, Rick Perry, was too divisive and too conservative.
There was one image I wanted to use, which combined something [the character] Joe Mott describes — about dreaming that Hickey walked in the bar flashing a big bankroll — and something Harry says earlier about Rocky and Chuck cheating him by throwing all the money in the air and whatever doesn't stick to the ceiling is his share.
What helps is Roth's willingness to use Vornado's big bankroll to go outside and lure experts into his company.
"You have some ideological extremists who have a big bankroll, and they can entirely skew our politics.
