Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish heels, cas tanets and fingernails, accompanied by a troupe of wriggling gypsies. A fat, sad-faced Russian named Raphael makes a concertina, scarcely larger than a sausage, whisper like a violin. A magician named De Roze refreshes his audience by pouring, from a pitcher which appears to con tain pure water, small sniffs of whiskey, benedictine, gin, tomato juice or absinthe. Between turns, bland oldtime Nikita Balieff makes impudent speeches in the "English lahngwidge...
...names were last fortnight introduced to a U. S. audience. Tories in their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...
...University who wished to buy tickets for only the football games there is now on sale a Football Coupon Ticket Book containing coupons for the Hates, Brown, Holy Cross Dartmouth, and New Hampshire games but no provision is made for seats for the Princeton. West Point, and Yale con- tests. Holders of contribution books wishing to sit with a friend at all five of the minor games may turn in these coupons with those from the books and receive the extra tickets at a saving of $3.85 on the five games. These tickets are on the Harvard side...
Much criticism, pro and con, has been directed lately at the administration by members of both parties, one side charging it with radicalism and the other defending its moderation. Members of the Brain Trust and others closely allied with them have taken every opportunity to assure the public that moderation will characterize the government's activities in the future...
...United and for which new contracts are to be let include the West Coast run from Seattle to San Diego, the Salt Lake City-Spokane "feeder" line and an important route from Chicago to Fort Worth via Kansas City. Only old United route not to get a new con tract is the Tulsa-Watertown feeder line