Word: crookedness
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The croupiers' most common method of stealing from casino management is almost as old as roulette, which was supposedly invented by Philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1655. A crooked croupier merely palms a $100 chip or two from the stacks of losers' chips that he rakes to the side...
Kelly agreed that he had stuffed the money into his pockets, all right, explaining: "Ten thousand dollars in new hundred-dollar bills is little more than a half-inch thick." He said he put all of the cash, $25,000, into the glove compartment of his car. Then he placed...
As audiences have changed, so have the mechanics of auctioneering. Twenty years ago, salesrooms were decorous, dusty-and dull. They were frequented mostly by dealers or agents for anonymous collectors. Save for the hobbyist or scholar who might attend a sale of arms and armor or rare folios, amateurs seldom...
IF YOU WEATHER the crooked linoleum corridors of the second floor of the Jefferson Physics Laboratory, you come upon an unassuming, airy, office, distinguishable from all others only by its lazily opened door. Above the nameplate--"Prof. S. Glashow"--somebody's placed a gun control sticker, and above that a...
It may be that Charles is so hooked on ratiocination because he is so bad at acting. On the funny side of 50, Charles is the kind of thespian whose career has been confined to small parts in the big time and big parts in the small time. When he...