Word: cheate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rumanian Cheat. Somewhat less revolting than the Egyptian fraud was Rumania's election last week - for in Ru mania each party has its turn at cheating...
...this Colossus of Britain were a monstrous swindler and a mean cheat, what Court, what Law would be so mighty as to overawe or punish him? Last week in the ancient, musty Guildhall of London, Lord Kylsant was brought to trial before a man even more impressive than himself. Without the consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great...
...cheat, Sir William Gordon-Cumming, Lieut.-Colonel in the Scots Guards, was forced by H. R. H. to sign a pledge that he would never play cards again for money. But this pledge, despite the fulminations of even the London Times, the future King Edward would not sign...
James Maxwell Murphy is correct. To the State of Wisconsin, apologies. But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain...
...Muir) will indubitably go to the electric chair for the murder of his best friend unless he is willing to divulge his move ments on the night of the killing. At the last moment Mercer Trask (A. E. Anson), a barrister of the Clarence Darrow variety, is importuned to cheat the gallows, free Mr. Muir. Lawyer Trask has not been on the case half an hour before he divines that Mr. Muir is shielding a lady. It takes the rest of the evening to find the lady and make her confess. Because of her awesome social position and because...