Word: cheate
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...chain letters became the city's biggest business, cutting heavily into retail trade. Professional operators hired hundreds of stenographers, rented big offices, sold letters to crowds of customers, who in turn sold them to other suckers. On a $5 series, notaries public certified payments to make them "cheat-proof." After one roaring day the boom faded...
...history of her day. Though her version is never likely to be widely popular, her readers know by this time that she does not lie to them, however uncomfortably, even drearily, she sometimes talks. Her ambition is prosaic but candid: "There is only one book worth writing-not to cheat, but to record every item in the tale of mistakes, joys. cruelties, and simple meannesses that make up our dealings one with others, then to write down the total, hand it in. and clear off without making a fuss...
...Soon the news of the witness' appearance was buzzing over Pittsburgh. Spectators began to flow in. Within an hour the courtroom was jammed with citizens eager to hear Andrew William Mellon defend himself in person against the U. S. Government's charge that he is a liar, cheat and fraud...
...brush made two rapid curlicues, and he found himself in court on the rare charge of criminal libel. Last week at his trial the curlicues were held up for a jury to see. They formed the words mpau shek. That, said the prosecution's interpreters, meant "rob" and "cheat." Nothing of the sort, retorted Editor Jee; it meant "squeeze," which was what he accused the Association of doing. If he had wanted to write "rob," Editor Jee said he would have squiggled chang gip. In 40 minutes, the jury accepted the meaning as "rob," found Crusader Jee guilty...
...third week in April, when entrance fees and admissions are redistributed in prizes of which Bowler Mensenberg is unlikely to receive any but his medal. Most Congressmen bring their own bowling balls, of lignum vitae or composition rubber, in specially tailored leather cases. Since it is easy to cheat by putting lead in the finger-holes, each ball is carefully weighed before its owner uses it to make sure it conforms to the 16-lb. standard...