Word: forger
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...Dossena sculptures had been sold as original antiques by the great Renaissance artists: Donatello, Verrocchio, Mino da Fiesole, Niccola Pisano, etc., etc. Newspapers, promptly dubbed him "world's greatest forger," and before the excitement was over the notorious Elia Volpi and several other over-shrewd dealers found themselves fined, exposed, and once more in possession of carloads of spurious sculpture. Sculptor Dossena remained within the law. He never sold his work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid...
...Heard Louisiana's Long flay a Senate investigator into his State rule as a liar, scoundrel, thief and forger...
...Illinois, last week, at the Stateville and Joliet Penitentiaries, began a high-school correspondence course with 22 convict-students, this faculty: Scholar-Murderer Richard Loeb, director and instructor in English composition, history and Spanish; Attorney-Kidnapper Joseph Pursifull, Latin; Engineer-Forger Mark Oettinger, mathematics; Student-Bandit Edward ("Toddy") Dillon, English literature...
...goes to a butter-fingered salesman (Charles Ruggles) in a china store. He buys himself a cane, invites his employer to watch him use it on shelves of tableware. A prostitute (Wynne Gibson) takes a room in an expensive hotel and goes to bed alone, without her stockings. A forger (George Raft) is unable to find anyone who will cash a good check for him. He ends by trading it for one night's shelter, to the proprietor of a 10? lodging house who uses it to light a cigar. A bedazzled Marine (Gary Cooper), an ex-vaudeville actress...
...expressed with considerable force, but nowhere does the play flatter itself into searching after Truth. The weak and henpecked husband, and the wilful, self-seeking, and unattractive wife and elder daughter are all foiled in the end when the younger sister marries the hero, and Mr. Connelly and a forger are thwarted in their attempt to swindle Miss Lord and dupe the world of art; the most admirable touch of all is that the benevolently paternal and sophisticated art critic of the Herald Tribune brings it all about. Nothing could be more like a charming German fairy tale than this...