Word: fagin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of all the reforms which have been brought to pass by an enlightened society, descendants of Fagin and Bill Sykes still roam the wilds of Whitechapel. If anything, their numbers have greatly increased since the days when the Artful Dodger and his merry associates removed pocket bandkerchiefs from the coat-talls of respectable old gentlemen, and disturbed the waking hours of Bow Street Magistrates. Human nature is still a checkered pattern of blacks and whitos...