Word: bilking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Dramatized study of phony fund raisers who annually bilk the U.S. public out of millions of dollars...
...Acker Bilk, king of the trad men, is a chap with a name that has probably caused Charles Dickens to stir in his grave, tap his foot and smile. A 32-year-old former Somersetshire blacksmith. Bilk acquired his skills on the clarinet in an army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year...
Officials of the Providence Post Office have investigated the College Record Club of Brown University and cleared the club of suspicion of fraud. Carelessness, rather than an attempt to bilk customers, was responsible for delivery failures, they said...
Your staffmen missed a very precious opportunity to expose the financial mire, construction bilk and pathological conformity such as we've mortgaged ourselves into in South Jersey...