Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from her bath to a filthy cellar once used as a chicken roost, had kept her chained to the wall for 29 hours; how they had negotiated for a $60,000 ransom from her father and had finally collected $30,000; how Walter McGee, arrested in Amarillo, Tex., had con fessed...
...nations will, in the same spirit of goodwill, view our American policies which are aimed to overcome an unprecedented economic situation at home. . . . "That is why I do not regard the Economic Conference as a failure. . . . You can count on our continued efforts toward world rehabilitation because we are con vinced that a continuation of the work of the World Economic Conference will result in practical good in many fields of joint endeavor...
Firmly pursuing this destiny, Marshal Muto sat in Changchun, subsisting on his Spartan diet of rice, rice, rice, while his sub-commanders conquered the Chinese province of Jehol, added it to Manchukuo (TIME, March 13). Like Marshal Muto his successor General Hishikari is con sidered not a military genius but a safe & sane commander able to guide the exuberance of junior officers and to build up Manchukuo as a state...
...various countries since the first convention in Paris (1878), the I. G. C. tries not only to reach international standards of nomenclature and to serve as an international clearinghouse for new discoveries and theories, but also to give visiting geologists a chance to pore over the rocks and con tours of the countries in which the meetings are held...
...order to read the pages on myself." Though he knew it was a weakness, he was often attracted to patent medicines. Once he took six boxes of anti-fat pills, which upset his heart. His doctor mildly rebuked him, said "that I oughtn't to take medicines without con-suiting him. And of course he is quite right. It is perfectly staggering the idiotic things even a wise man will do." Though Bennett wrote for money and made a good income (as high as $75,000) he was not extravagant; but he had foibles. "In the morning, early...