Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education, talk in a language which is a combination of Gertrude Stein at her clearest and a book of Victorian etiquette at its most pompous ("Will you rise with your unconscious grace and ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They do their grim talking in dining rooms and nurseries which the author hardly ever describes, but which Critic Edward Sack-ville-West has neatly termed "embowered, rook-enchanted concentration camps." The persevering reader will find...
...Communist techniques have been the political tools of tyrants from time immemorial: murder and terror. We refuse to accept fraud and deceit as standards of public conduct. We reject murder and terror as political weapons...
...years, while their clinic flourished, the old brothers stiff-armed the law. Charged with federal mail fraud, they began to send out their literature by Railway Express. In 1947, the State of Indiana started action to take away their licenses. Dr. Peter fought the case through the courts, finally lost last January...
...like a goboon in a Scollay Square saloon, is a battered vessel. It was severely dented last November when Mayor James Michael Curley, a man with a mountainous contempt for public opinion, returned happily to his $20,000-a-year job after spending five months in prison for mail fraud. Since then, Boss Curley has given the vessel a few more kicks...
...that we try to glamorize the doings of the U.N. . . . Our reporters who cover the meetings of U.N., or Congress, or the legislature are expected to know the difference between windbags, crooks and statesmen, and to treat them accordingly in all news dispatches ... So long ... as U.N. remains a fraud on the hopes of many decent people, it will be treated...