Word: bunco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rather incoherent lecture to a small audience in Bangor on Monday evening. Among other things, he drew a diagram, on which he represented himself as on the top of a high mountain, exceeding in knowledge everybody else in the world. He placed Harvard graduates in the bottom layer, bunco steerers next above them, and then Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...claimed, alas ! that Fitzgerald, the bunco steerer, is a graduate of Harvard. His natural depravity is not explained by this fact. It is explained by the fact that he was born near St. Louis...