Word: cheat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another American doctor is reported to have discovered a truth serum, scopolamin-apomorphia, whose use makes it impossible to lie or cheat. Whether or no, the truth will out. Both of these discoveries point the same way. Gamaliel Bradford sees the end when he writes...
...Turks, who are at present going through a Turkey-for-theTurks phase, have ever despised the lowly and, be it said, dirty Greek and other Levantines for their unscrupulous methods. Foreigners who visit the bazaars of Constantinople have noticed that it is always the Levan- tines who cheat and hardly ever the Turks...
...dragged by the heels into running for Mayor by enthusiastic women friends, who feel that the town's politics need dusting off. In endeavoring to wage a clean campaign she commits most of the sins known to professional office-seekers. The author has very astutely led her to lie, cheat and practically embezzle, while bit by bit her ideals are chipped away...
...Marriage Cheat. This little screen sister of Rain has a steady downpour on its South Sea island. Also, it has a minister who fis sorely tempted, after preaching Hellfire and brimstone at the poor native sinners who wear their sins openly. But in this case the rain washes everyone clean. The minister who plans to leave with the woman he loves?a wife who has fled ashore from the yacht of her wastrel millionaire husband?finally sends her back to the debauchee. It seems a foolish thing to do?perhaps he was touched by the heat. But the picture...
...Shepherd, who is an author and a journalist, undertakes to show that over one half of America's future citizens now receiving training in the public schools "will, under temptation, have an unethical outlook on life." Scores of school-children, according to Mr. Shephard, assented to such statements as "Cheating a railroad is not so much a sin as cheat a person," and "If a storekeeper gives you too much change, it is all right to keep it, because he would probably do the same if you paid him too much...