Word: bunco
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...audacious," "crafty," "lusty," "flamboyant," "hot-tempered." Other words, complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame of newspapermen the world over." But neither friend nor foe could call Publisher Bonfils "sensitive." Journalistic rough-&-tumble was his particular meat. He was an able name-caller himself. The battle...
...York State Nautical School and commanded the U. S. S. Newport during the War. In 1924, he turned altogether to writing, having already published two sea stories and a textbook. P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman." Last autumn he published Vignettes of the Sea, much like William McFee's off-duty ruminations. The polyglot relations in East Side, West Side reflect his own. A deep-chested, straw-haired German, he married, in 1912, Maud Conroy of Queenstown, Ireland...
...story. Noble graduate of 1907, with a bank account, a tender heart and too much leisure. It reads like that story of Bunner's, where the brave little boy sells the gold brick to a kind old gentleman, and thus provides a Christmas for the family of the unsuccessful bunco steerer...
...CRIMSON baseball team will administer its annual drubbing to the Lampoon aggregation of ball-muffers, on the Freshman Diamond, this afternoon, at 4 o'clock sharp. This bunch of pseudo-literary bunco-steerers, whose motto is "millions from advertisements, but not one line of humor," have profited in their business to such a degree that they were able to offer Hans Wagner a fabulous sum to play for them. Although he refused, being unwilling to associate with such an unscrupulous body, these wielders of the shears and paste-pot will undoubtedly pull of some equally delicate bit of delicious humor...
...Bunco Steerer, C. C. Brinton...