Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students in the University, and especially those in the Graduate Schools and Law School, are warned against a group of swindlers who are operating in Cambridge, and selling low-grade domestic cloths as expensive imported goods. Two of the pseudo merchants generally go around through the dormitories together, traveling in a Ford touring car. A heavily built, dark man usually carries the cloth, while one of a group of accomplices, giving a different name and card each time, sells the cloth. To disarm suspicion, they often mention the name of a well-known student as recommending them, and also speak...
...have still another dealer. A cloth merchant has appeared in our midst, selling bolts of the most value "English" goods at a ridiculously cheap rate for these days of the H. C. L. The chance for a real barter here is too imposing to miss. Visions of imported tweeds and cheviots fascinate the youthful mind, and not until the "nominal payment" is made does bitter realization dawn. Verify, there is one born every minute. And as time goes on, human ingenuity will invent other bait for the fish; may we not shortly have the privilege of hailing the affable bootlegger...