Word: capered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Counterpotter. Far from being merely a dry manual, Potter's book is alive with the personalities of real Lifemen. There are men like G. Odoreida, a thorough cad even by Lifemanship standards (to a fellow Lifeman ecstatically in love he would dryly remark: "Well, how is your little caper with Julia going?"). And there are crafty operators like G. Cogg-Willoughby, whose most famous victory came at a weekend party against an egregious hostess-nobbier named P. de Sint, the kind of man who develops a rich, bronze suntan in a matter of hours...
...have kept over all ex-criminals in Boston and vicinity. According to reliable reports, several of the more carefully watched have asked high Washington officials to try and get the pressure taken off. America's chief racketeers have come to regard Boston as a dangerous area for "pulling a caper," or whatever they're calling it these days...