Word: gialdini
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Norman Douglas, Aldous Huxley and many other famed Englishmen prefer living in Italy to living in England for climatic, artistic, economic, gastronomic and other reasons. John Gialdini, Anglo-Italian banker, former partner of super-swindler Clarence Charles Hatry (TIME, Oct. 21, et seq.) has one all sufficient reason for living in Italy: there is no criminal extradition treaty between Italy and Britain. Last week he was more than ever satisfied with his Italian domicile. His four former partners-pale and spectacular Clarence Hatry, stolid Albert Edward Tabor, colorless Edmund Daniels and Charles Graham Dixon-stood...
Dramatically, elegant Norman Birkett, counsel for the defense, pleaded mercy for his clients. His cultivated voice tremulous with emotion, Barrister Birkett told how the rascally Gialdini (now in Italy) had evolved the entire scheme of the counterfeit bonds...
...Hatry was blinded by the enormity of the thing suggested by Gialdini, simply blinded! Gialdini declared that if his scheme were not adopted he would simply blow out his brains right there in Hatry's house...
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