Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply because it is scandalous, his fellow bishops technically are under no obligation to do so. Catholic theologians have decided that gaming is licit provided 1) the gamer owns and is at liberty to use what he wagers; 2) he acts of his free will; 3) there is no fraud; 4) there is equality between the parties to the game. Nevertheless gambling has been denounced by saints, church councils, Popes.* Of gambling, the Catholic Encyclopedia remarks: "If indulged in to excess it leads to loss of time, and usually of money; to an idle and useless life spent...
With bona-fide critics hailing Laughton's "Rembrandt" as a satisfying sequal to his jobs with the notorious Tudor monarch and the "Mutiny on the Bounty", and with the local half-shell philosopher disagreeing with editorial policy, as is his prerogative, and damning it as a fraud and a delusion, the spectator has no where to turn. For certainly "Rembrandt" is not a great picture. Laughton, overimpressed with his own impressiveness, talks in a whisper that makes flesh creep, while the whole theme of the artist's life seems too simple for him and yet too deep, and it evades...
...took a baby, one that I thought no one else in the world wanted but me. I did tell Dr. Pitzman he was the father but there never was a conspiracy to de fraud him of any of his property or any of his money. His purse was always open to me, as he has testified. I did it out of love, to hold him. I don't want innocent people to suffer. My husband did not know the facts until last Monday night. There never has been the slightest thought or slightest idea to violate...
...they ride to accidents in patrol cars. In San Francisco in 1933, four doctors and five other employes of an emergency hospital were suspended for tipping off attorneys about accidents. In New York City, after insurance companies paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau was set up under Assistant District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread rackets: 1) "floppers," who fall in the street, claim to have been hit by a passing car; 2) rings, like the Hurwitz gang, which stage accidents in which driver, victim, lawyer and doctor share the boodle...
...Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...