Word: flimflamming
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...country where other people pay high income taxes (as much as 50% in the $20,000 range), the privileged status of artists and writers has not raised much criticism, a fact that British Thriller Writer Peter Driscoll (The Wilby Conspiracy) attributes to the Irishman's traditional admiration for flimflam...
...German flimflam man named Johann Nepomuk Maelzel appeared in the U.S. and began wowing the natives with his traveling show of mechanical marvels. His treasures included an automated trumpet player, a device called the panharmonicon that could duplicate the sound of a 40-piece orchestra (playing Beethoven) and an elaborate diorama showing the burning of Moscow. But Maelzel's star attraction was a hoax: a chess automaton nicknamed the Turk that took on all comers-and was every bit as talented as the human player cleverly concealed within it. That role was filled by William Schlumberger, an Alsatian hunchback...
...country, that we were putting the era of Viet Nam and Watergate behind us and going on to work on constructive problems. But I'm not trying to oversell what I can do. Our social fabric is rather tattered. There's been a lot of flimflam. The role of the President is to describe what's possible and what...
...room. Medlin was turned over to authorities at a federal prison halfway house in Raleigh, N.C., where he had been serving two consecutive five-year sentences for interstate transport of stolen vehicles before escaping two months ago. Said O'Keefe, awed at Medlin's ability to flimflam network executives: "If he's a con artist, he doesn't need to be in crime. He should be in Hollywood. He would be making a million dollars a year...
...cameras will do much to clean up the neighborhood. The police admit that some crime inevitably escapes their watchful eye; there are too many shadows on the screens, especially at night. To date, the cameras have enabled them to arrest six miscreants: two pickpockets, two muggers, a flimflam player and a character who was swinging an ax at passersby...