Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wherever instruments beat rhythms and humans whirl or sway in the dance, brisk tunes appear, engender lively songs, finally graft upon the tongue of man strange but glib phrases. Recent additions...
...bank in which some $70,000 of bankruptcy money had been placed by the Judge. The son, in addition to a good salary, received from the bank the equivalent of 3% interest on these deposits. Was it legitimate commission for securing the bankruptcy accounts, or was it graft...
Said M. Stelmachovics: "The rapid economic recovery of Russia during the past twelve months has been attended by an enormous increase in the number of cases of embezzlement and graft reported by the police. . . . At Moscow such crimes have increased eleven fold in twelve months, and in the provinces the figure is nearly 20 fold. . . . This situation has been brought about by slipshod administrative and financial control, and by lack of care in the selection of employes. . . . 41% of the culprits had been employed less than six months . . . [and] 58% of them were addicted to drink or debauched living. . . . Bookkeeping...
...they were lawyers. They had not known about the knock-out system which British dealers use to get graft out of a sale...
...stranger, very much alone in a strange land, this must have seemed like a singularly unsportsmanlike proceeding. First to be reprimanded for every scheduled race in which sickness kept him from competing, and then to have his travelling accounts ransacked for petty graft must have been insufferable treatment even for the quiet and undemonstrative Nurmi...