Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Casanova was an imposing figure over six feet tall: "satiric, satanic, sensuous. An ugly man, swarthy, hawklike, with beady eyes . . . thin elongated nose." A charlatan, cardsharp, liar, forger, adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which...
...California officer said that Vernon, onetime rodeo roughrider, horse thief, forger, had recently been released from Folsom Prison, Cal. He is unmarried, childless...
Then, when a whiteman forger and thief stole $140,000 of State money and was pardoned after serving four years of a five-year term Editor Harris wrote: "Mule Hicks, an ignorant 17-year-old Negro, stole a mule worth less than $100. He was sentenced to serve twenty years at hard labor. After serving twelve years he was still in the chain gang, and as a result of his treatment attempted to escape. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, although not a witness saw the killing. Mule Hicks is a Negro. Who cares...
Brilliantly, passionately, yet with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty...
Publicity is the sole weapon that cuts the forger's revenue. Unfortunately it is always wielded too late. There may be news in the fact that two days before, ninety-nine merchants and lawyers dropped several grand on bogus tickets but there is no solace if you are the hundredth...