Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the couch whereon she had been carelessly thrown . . ." He could ride and shoot like a Cody or a Hickock. When he was not dead drunk, he could spout a temperance speech that would awaken the remorse of the most sodden toper. When he was not in jail for fraud, slander, bigamy, libel or inciting to riot, he wrung women's hearts with his impassioned campaigns for purity. This was a sore point among his mistresses and his wives; he married at least six, in various cities, and sometimes had as many as three wives at once...
...horried person," the priest shouted back. "I can see by your horrid, filthy, sexually degenerate face what you are. You're a horrible example of a Protestant fraud, everyone knows that, it's a wonder any decent girl will look in your face. Everyone in the park knows...
...Deliberate fraud and probable forgery" in academic admission records at City College of New York, where one player's high-school average of 70.62% was raised to 89.4%, and another's was raised ten points, to make them eligible for admission, i.e., to play on C.C.N.Y.'s basketball team...
These stories whetted the interest of California Democrat Cecil R. King, chairman of a House subcommittee investigating tax irregularities. The committee had already begun to wonder "why so many tax-fraud cases recommended for prosecution by special agents had been dropped. A number of witnesses, including Caudle, were called before closed sessions. Then Harry Truman got a telephone fill-in on the case from Congressman King. Last week from Key West, Truman's office announced that Caudle had resigned "by request of the President . . . because Mr. Caudle was engaged in outside activities . . . incompatible with the duties of his office...
...implied, was only a beginning. He discovered that she had simply assumed the name DuPont for flash effect during a career as a cosmetician and manufacturer of lady's chin straps, and that she was actually the daughter of a Polish laborer. As a perpetrator of "marital fraud," Doraine deserved neither a separation nor alimony, her husband argued...