Word: grifter
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...Chicago she watched an old grifter friend hanged for a payroll murder, got jobs in transient bureaus which never lasted longer than the time it took to check up on her past record. When Bertha struck up acquaintance with a statistician working on a Federal transient survey and he offered her a job, she took it; her wanderlust was nearly sated. She decided to settle down in Manhattan, raise her own child. She was 30, and she had seen the world...
Madame Racketeer (Paramount) is a female version of Cracksman Jimmy Valentine in the small town. Alison Skipworth is the grizzled old grifter with formidable dimples. She is the long-forgotten wife of a provincial hotelkeeper (Richard Bennett) and the mother of his two daughters. A rolling stone, she comes back to the starting line for moss, incognito except to her husband. But for $20 she swindled out of the warden as she was leaving her latest penitentiary she is penniless, but she caracoles into town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked...