Word: crooking
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...Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight out of the Oscar Wilde era and The Yellow Book. There is a businesslike crook named Enrico, and there is a beautiful girl named Geronima, who tucks a flower into Jimmy's buttonhole each morning. Soon he becomes known across Rome as "the guide with the flower." With such a cast the story, such as it is, can only be dreamlike and tragicomic...
...Loosely translated: a crook sold him some worthless shares of common stock...
...insert a wire into the works, and by careful manipulation "walk" the reels until they stop at the jackpot position. But since freshly drilled holes are too easily detected, other jackpotters have fashioned keys with which they can unlock machines and stop the reels by hand. A first-class crook can walk the reels, hit the jackpot in 30 seconds flat and, before the change girl appears, slip his small tools to an accomplice, who ambles away. Then he collects his money, goes off to make another strike...
Lugrolling. In Freehold, N.J., a headline in the Transcript announced: G.O.P. CLUBS BACK CROOK FOR SHERIFF...
...Last Hurrah. The Good Government League should be outraged by this Crook's Tour of old-style machine politics, as conducted by Spencer Tracy in the guise of lovable, larcenous Frank Skeffington...