Word: grifting
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...this grave lies a man once hailed as a great writer, but currently out of fashion. Buried beside him is a woman who was hardly thought of as a writer at all, but who may well burst forth posthumously with a bestseller. Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson has been known -if at all-as a sort of two-dimensional adjunct to her great husband Robert Louis Stevenson. Now, all at once, Fanny is three-dimensional. Anthologist-Author Charles Neider, aided by infra-red and ultraviolet light, but hindered by often almost illegible handwriting, has published Fanny's diary...
...later, back in New York. One night in a Manhattan delicatessen, he met some songwriters. After Baruch, they looked to Billy like "a buncha dumb-heads"-until somebody told him they made 40 and 50 grand a year. "Just like that," says Rose, "I decided that this was the grift...
...therefore, Archer Vande-grift's tiny patch of warfare is destiny. It can mean the difference between vigorous offense and weary defense in the Pacific, perhaps between beating the Japs in two years...
...Logistics. The Pacific war is one of logistics, and so Archer Vande-grift's most constant worry has been about supply. At no time has he had quite enough of anything...
...player, once a streetcar conductor, was employed when the paper was in its kicking, yelping infancy. A swift writer, he compounded the argot of the ball park, the slum and the green room, helped make possible such journalistic enigmas as: "Crusading Tab Bailies Biz Into Rough Joints," "Ruined by Grift, Carnival Goods Men Turn to Bridge Prize Trade," "Wellman No Like, He Walks...