Word: chiseler
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...double cross" by Britain, France or both. Steaming up Italians to fury at sanctions as the "vilest and meanest" of measures, II Duce prepared to meet them after Nov. 18 by suppressing last week all publication of Italian trade and financial statistics, so that League States that wish to chisel on sanctions and trade with Italy anyhow may do so undetected...
...cited was his "misleading" charge to the jury. The defense contended that Prosecutor Wilentz had improperly switched during the trial from the assumption that Hauptmann had killed the child by dropping it outside the house to the theory that he had killed the child in its crib with a chisel. Particularly was Prosecutor Wilentz scored for his "intemperate" summation in which he branded Hauptmann as "an animal" and "Public Enemy No. 1 of the World...
...East Boston, a junk peddler pulled his wagon away himself when his horse dropped dead on the street. Seven hours later he went back with hammer and chisel, knocked off the dead horse's shoes, took them home. Police removed the horse...
Sculptor Barnard was born in Bellefonte, Pa., started life as a taxidermist. Starving in Paris, he earned the jealous admiration of Auguste Rodin when he was a student in his twenties. With his chisel he has made at various times enormous sums of money. He once estimated that his Lincoln statues brought him over $260,000. Three of his countless pieces give him a secure place in any history of Art: Adam & Eve, now on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills; the gaunt standing Lincoln intended for Westminster Abbey, now in Manchester, England; the nude reclining Pan, once...
...Another "signature" had been made, said he, by a chisel similar to the one which was found with the ladder. A chisel of the same size was used to mortise the rungs into the uprights. Furthermore, the chisel was of the same make as another of Hauptmann's chisels, and filled the one vacancy in his tool chest...