Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawrence O. Harding, who had claimed he was "a poor merchant seaman" robbed of all he had in the world, was sentenced to a year's probation by Judge Stone of the East Cambridge Court for "panhandling...
...story featuring large amounts of Irish whiskey and Irish blood won $5 for a rag-clad "merchant seaman." The donors were two soft-hearted Wigglesworthy residents, Frank Ensign '52 and Richard Craven '52, who admitted to Yard cops yesterday that they were completely taken in by the confidence man's tale...
...tattered stranger appeared at the sophomores' door, claiming that he was "a poor merchant seaman off the S.S. Flamingo" who had gotten drunk on pay day and had been robbed of all he had in the world. His spiel ended with an appeal to the open-mouthed listeners to have a warm spot in their hearts for "a poor Irishman who had a wee bit too much to drink...
University police jolted the pair with the information that the merchant seaman has been stranded from the Flamingo since...
...Papa," said the boy Leon Blum, "how dare you sell your ware for more money than you paid for it?" There is no record of Papa Blum's answer; of Alsatian Jewish stock, a Parisian merchant in the reign of Napoleon III, he went right on selling laces and ribbons for a tidy profit. But son Leon rebelled against what he later called the dishonesty and decay of bourgeois capitalism...