Word: bilking
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...Republican National Committee was the first to take a kick at the ball. In its anti-entanglement ardor it declared that the Allies were attempting to " bilk " the United States out of payment for our Rhine Army bill (TIME, June 4). The State Department felt itself embarrassed and at its request the National Committee withdrew its article...
...occupation, and change of occupation often means rest. In fact, we can imagine nothing more soothing and refreshing to an intellectual man than the delivery of a course of lectures this winter on the journalistic art, illustrated by the writings of those illustrious practitioners, 'Judas,' 'Ananias' and 'The Bilk' of this city. To lead the young Cornell mind through the various phases of a controversy carried on by these gentlemen, mingling instruction with criticism on the way, would surely be far more recreative, as well as far more interesting, than doing the mechanical drudgery of the Senate clerkship...