Word: graftings
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...supplementary to the breeder's regular business. The elaborate kennels which Mr. Butler probably refers to are the property of millionaires, and are as expensive a luxury as their fine stables. Showing dogs at the shows is one of the few American sports where there is almost no graft...
Recently Deputy Leon Nicole, Socialist editor of Le Travail, published charges of graft and financial scandal in the canton government of Geneva. Swiss conservatives retorted that Deputy Nicole and his ally Jacques Dicke, a naturalized Russian, were really Communist agents in the pay of Moscow. They organized an anti-Communist mass meeting in Geneva's Community Hall. Editor Nicole urged his followers to break it up, then hold a protest meeting of their own in the Plaine de Plainpalais, the Union Square of Geneva. At this point hysteria seized Geneva authorities, who seldom have a riot to deal with. Troops...
Chen, furious at being cheated of the graft he had expected to get as Governor, got out his short, sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland...
...adopt a laissez-faire attitude in the question, and to withhold support of the League is to provide the muddy streams of graft with further substance. Already the League has organized itself in good shape under responsible leadership; economy itself is a non-partisan issue. In supporting the League students will be give further strength to a sound movement that merits their cooperation...
...Hofstadter endorsement by Tammany deprived local Republicans of the chance of raising a graft-&-corruption cry against the Democratic nominee for Mayor. Boss Curry had silenced the issue he dreaded most. Most observers thought the deal included the nomination by Boss Koenig of a flabby Republican over whom "Jimmy" Walker could walk back to city hall with the least trouble...