Word: defrauding
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...Frederick A. Cook, "North Pole Discoverer": "At Fort Worth I was arrested with several of my associates for using the mails to defraud in the sale of oil stock. I furnished $25,000 bail and was released...
...communication and the notice from the Athletic Association which we print this morning, regarding ushers' tickets, are indicative of some of the lowest attempts imaginable on the part of certain students, whom we refuse to grace with the name of Harvard men, to defraud the College by speculation. Any man who, on the plea of poverty, has secured a ticket admitting to the Stadium as an usher and who has sold the ticket, deserves not the least semblance of sympathy. He has secured his ticket under false pretenses and has then proceeded to deprive men who really need the opportunity...
...fellow who "longs to swagger." He gets himself into many awkward situations, is secretly married, has a fight with bailiffs, is arrested, and makes a fool of himself because he is unable to curb his inordinate vanity. At the instigation of the villian Rynaldo, Fortunio and Valerio attempt to defraud their fathers. The denouement is most amusing and unexpected...
...place the student in a position in which he will appear to be amenable to the provisions of Chapter 203 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts which provide in $59 that "Whoever designedly, by a false pretence, or by a privy or false token, and with intent to defraud, obtains property from another person, . . . shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding ten years, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the jail not more than two years...
...make use of unfair means to gain an end which is valuable only so far as it is genuine." That this practice, however, which is both "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" and a crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail to a certain extent in Harvard, as well as in other colleges, cannot be denied, and it is meaner than the acts of a swindler, in proportion as it is not amenable to the laws of the police courts...