Word: charlatans
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...distinguished lawyers are criminal lawyers. The big fees and the prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers...
...seemed to ring true. Nan Britton did not sound like an adventuress but like a smalltown girl who felt she had experienced one of the worlds great loves. Moreover, names and places, letters, photographs and episodes were in great and confident profusion through the book. The bravest, most brazen charlatan would never have dared so much...
MYSTERIES-Knut Hamsun- Knopf ($2.50). "In the middle of the summer of 1891 a little Norwegian coast town was the scene of a series of most unusual events. A Stranger turned up in the town, a certain Nagel, a noteworthy and original charlatan, who did a heap of odd things and vanished again as suddenly as he had come...
...described himself as "Chief of the Astrologers' Guild of New York," appeared last week in Albany, N. Y., to work for the passage of a state law to license "genuine astrologers." He said he wanted to "drive out pretenders and charlatans who for 25? will deliver a readymade horoscope." Legislators, well aware that pretenders and charlatans abound, sympathized. But they wondered how to tell a charlatan from an astrologer...
...secrets.* Particularly was a skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only, in his scholarly way, described one. The formula was enough to discourage the most boldfaced charlatan that ever sold canal water for a cureall. Elixir of life contains: "That which is tempered in the fourth degree . . . gold "That which swims in the sea . . . pearl. "The thing that grows in the air . . . a flower. "That which is cast up by the sea . . . ambergris. "A plant of India...