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Flubdubs & Mollycoddles. Name calling is a time-honored sport among Americans where their Presidents are concerned. George Washington was called a crook and the "stepfather of his country." It was said of John Adams that "the cloven foot is in plain sight." Jefferson was berated as a mean-spirited hypocrite, Jackson as a murderer and adulterer, Lincoln as a baboon. With rare elegance, Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson "a Byzantine logothete* backed by flubdubs and mollycoddles. " When the Depression laid Herbert Hoover low, newspapers were called "Hoover blankets," and a "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned inside...
...some cases, the identification also included forged Government-agent I.D. cards. One crook with more than his share of gall actually checked into one hotel using a card made put in the name of an agent who was chasing...
...many a person wary of thieves, traveler's checks and credit cards are better than cash. Thieves agree. Precisely because the cards and checks are not legal tender, a smart crook knows that he is usually safer stealing or forging them than he is stealing or forging the real thing. In many states, lifting a credit card amounts to nothing more than lifting a penny's worth of plastic: serious crime may occur only when the issuing company is actually defrauded. The situation is much the same with traveler's checks. As a result, a man found...
...series of bizarre episodes, Gog finds himself involved with such hallucinatory historical characters as the Duke of Wellington, Cleopatra, and Alfred the Great, not to mention such odd fictive figures as the Bagman and the Crook. In a novel of this picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Victorians: The Ticket-of-Leave Man. Barrie Ingham plays a young Lancashireman who falls victim to a London crook, is wrongly accused of forgery and sent to jail. Free again on a "ticket-of-leave" for good behavior, he sets out to track the crook and settle accounts...