Word: cheate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
...cinema only mildly impaired by scenes such as a wild ride in a dilapidated Ford and a preposterous interlude in a Pullman car, inserted to give Marie Dressier a chance to execute her comic chompings, blinkings and shoulder twitchings. Good shot: Beulah Bondi, when she wants him to cheat their old servant, urging Lionel Barrymore to think with his eyes closed...
...table in the snow, he plays cards with the young lady who advised him to walk through the mirror, no longer marble now but a solemn and equivocal Muse. A polite audience chuckles at the game from the balconies of the courtyard. When the young man tries to cheat and fails, he puts a bullet through his brain...
...decree there was only one catch. Every peasant, in order to retain his status, must be "honorable"- the requisite degree of honor being defined as ''honorable enough to pay his debts if he is able to do so after proper administration of his land." Peasants who flagrantly cheat their creditors will suffer a peculiar penalty: the cheater's estate will pass while he is yet living to his heir. If the heir turns out to be a cheat, his heir gets the estate, and so on until an "honorable peasant" is found to hold the homestead...
Garr Fallson headed west for Prairie City and his career. He was making good money there, booming worthless real estate and running a crooked lottery until his partners, whom he had tried to cheat, exposed him. He moved on, established himself in Mineral City, and bought a moribund newspaper, The Chronicle. Garr took to yellow journalism like a rat to a sewer. By sensational news stories, circulation-forcing dodges, in a month he had quintupled the Chronicle's circulation. He tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want...